NOTICE OF PROPOSED PROCUREMENT (NPP)
Solicitation #: FP802-140075 Closing Date: July 2, 2014 Time: 11:00am Eastern daylight savings time
This requirement is for the department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Title: TASK BASED INFORMATICS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES (TBIPS) SUPPLY ARRANGEMENT (SA)
REQUIREMENT FOR ONE (1) WEB DEVELOPER LEVEL 3
USER INTERFACE DESIGNER FOR MIGRATION TO GOC WEB RENEWAL
Introduction
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) will be integrating its regional and national internet sites to improve service delivery and prepare for the movement of DFO Web content into Canada.ca. Integration will occur under topic areas which fall under the DFO mandate. This includes topics such as Fisheries, Safe Waterways, Marine Ecosystems, Science, Aquatic Species and Aquaculture.
Objectives of the Requirement
The proposed resource will be called upon to assist the Department in implementing a new Information Architecture which follows TBS Web Performance Measurement and Analytics Framework. This would include site design using data inputs from
- User needs assessment
- Usability testing
- Expert reviews (heuristic testing)
- Web analytics
- User surveys
- Social media analysis
- Search analytics
- Accessibility reviews
TASKS
The proposed resource will perform the following tasks:
- Participate in the planning of user needs assessment for known gaps in knowledge of user needs
- Use the results of usability testing to design content and navigation schemes which simplify user tasks
- Mapping content and site navigation to user’s expectation and engaging with actual users to iterate design through usability testing
- Conducts iterative design cycles to improve user task completion rates
- Measure Web page effectiveness to ensure that DFO Web content meets user needs and TBS performance measurement framework requirements. This includes the following Key Performance Indicators:
- Users can effectively search and navigate to information they need
- Web pages comply with W3C’s Web Content and Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0 AA Level)
- Content is coded in HTML5 and complies with Standard on Web interoperability
- Content is coded in UTF-8
- ATOM syndication is used for Web feeds
- Pages download and render in 2-5 seconds
- Page size doesn’t exceed 500kb
- Pages viewable on small screens with pinching and are thumb friendly
- Pages viewed on small screens are user friendly
- Implement WET 4.0 compliant Web pages using technologies such as javascript, html5, CSS3, bootstrap, Less, node.js,GIT, ESRI
- Lead the development of WET 4.0 compliant version of Wordpress solution for TBS.
- Recommend strategies for onboarding DFO content to Canada.ca
-Participate in Treasury Board working groups for Web Experience Toolkit
This requirement is for: FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA
This requirement is open only to those Supply Arrangement Holders who qualified under Tier “ 1 ” (= $0-$2M ) stream for Application Services.
This requirement is open only to those invited TBIPS Supply Arrangement Holders who qualified under the category for:
A.14 WEB Developer
The following SA Holders have been invited to submit a proposal.
1. 1092009 Ontario Inc.
2. Access Corporate Technologies Inc.
3. AMITA Corporation
4. Calian Ltd.
5. Computer Sciences Canada Inc./Les sciences de l’informatique Canada Inc.
6. Coradix technology Consulting Ltd.
7. Coredal Systems Consulting Inc.
8. FoxWise Technologies Inc., CSI CONSULTING INC, BATES PROJECT MANAGEMENT, INC IN JOINT VENTURE
9. ING Engineering Inc., LANLord Networking Systems Inc., in Joint Venture
10. Lintex Computer Group Inc.
11. N12 Consulting Corporation
12. S.i. Systems Ltd.
13. SRA Staffing Solutions Ltd.
14. TRM Technologies Inc.
15. Veritaaq Technology House Inc.
Enquiries regarding this RFP requirement are to be submitted in writing to the following:
Vladimir Shkrob
Contracting Officer,
Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Station 109, 301 Bishop Drive
Fredericton, NB
E3C 2M6
Email: v••••••••@•••••••.••.ca
