The Pan African Parliament seeks a Consultant or Firm with relevant expertise and experience to design and construct a comprehensive website that offers a visible web presence for the Continental Parliament and offers functionality to its stakeholders.
Scope of service
- Assess the current PAP website structure and contents for ease of accessibility, quality of contents, user-friendliness, ease of maintenance/update, information retrieval, etc…
- Access National Parliaments websites for reference, applying the advantages of layout design, navigation, usability & etc. to the redesign & implementation.
- Make proposal for design of the website based on the African Union (AU) and PAP guidelines and/or the African Union Commission website guidelines for Management's review and approval.
- Design the website structure, taking into account the requirements from the PAP: Clear catalogs & folders for data & page storage, attractive site & page layout, easy to use, update and maintain, flexible navigation & search function; counting function for web pages visited, etc.
- Gather informative contents for the web presence (text, documents, pictures, key speeches, etc.) from the PAP Media and Communications Office.
- Convert any document into text/html and properly format images for implementation in the Website.
- Make recommendations for backup/restore plan.
- Train to PAP Information Technology and the Media and Communications Staff on website maintenance and content update.
- Produce a Website Manager's Handbook.
- Design and hosted with security as a priority.
- Support the Website hosting service for 2018, 2019 and 2020 by the African Union Commission.
- Warranty and Service level agreement for 2018, 2019 and 2020.
- Make recommendations for software, hardware, and other back-end applications related to Web development.
Bids should be submitted in a sealed envelope marked or labelled: The PAP WEBSITE to the address below, not later than the date and time given below. Bids received after the deadline will be rejected.
Deadline: 05 December 2018 at 1200Hrs local time.
The Procurement Office
Pan African Parliament
19 Richards’ Drive
Gallagher Estate
Private Bag X16
Midrand 1685
Johannesburg
Republic of South Africa
Email address: tender@panafricanparliament.org