COA – Live From the City of Austin Web Bidder’s Conference 9-12-09
A hot and full room on a hot Austin day. Here are some salient points from the show as we go along.
Here is the LIVE webcast if you are not able to be here: http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/austingo/webcast.htm
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Austin’s Living Wage ($11 per hour) must be paid to any contractors directly connected to this project.
Health Insurance must be provided for any contractor directly connected to this project. (Wow! Question: Does this preclude offshoring resources who would/could not be held to such requirements?)
– updated 12:38pm
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Question from the floor: Is there a pass/fail standard posted somewhere on the City’s financial viability standard? Is there a formula online that we can use to self-evaluate our company?
Confirmed: No bond requirements.
Who were the secondary community people advisors and have they been precluded from bidding? In addition to Gartner, all participates signed non-disclosures and will not be participating in the bid.
Then the sub-vendors were asked to present themselves and their capabilities.
John McElhenney, former eBusiness consultant and program manager for Dell and am looking to provide executive oversight to primary and sub-vendors looking for additional guidance and leadership. I have not selected my teams.
12:47 — update
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MBE/WBE qualifications are being discussed.
Question: Can vendors outside the City able to bid on the project? Yes, they can even be outside the country.
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4.5 million page views per month, expressed from city employee.
A single vendor is trying to ask all of his questions here with all of us.
City has: Oracle Database, MS Office applications, including SharePoint.
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Technology architecture: What are the current systems and how will they need to be implemented in phase 2. That information will be provided to the winning vendor.
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Development of prototypes is the primary focus of part 1 of the RFP. All of PART 1 is consulting.
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Community engagement plan and steering committee are both part of the RFP.
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Question from the web:
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The processes and methodology of the winning vendor for phase 1 will be made available to the public for everyone interested in phase 2. [Wow, watch your processes folks. You're gonna be giving it away if you DO win.]
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Expected timeframe for phase 1 of the project. City answer, 6 – 9 months.
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Can you give us some indication of the level of design templates:
- We want to see the “Branding” of the website
- Architecture of the website
- Not fully coded or clickable.
- Would like to see the workflow of the design.
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The city uses Google Analytics to track current site usage. Data would be made available to the vendor.
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Audited financials will be required by vendors and sub-vendors. So get your books ready folks!
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That’s it. Good luck everyone.
@jmacofearth
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