2. Background
• UN GCNI has served as a country-level platform for Indian businesses –
Public and Private, academic institutions and CSOs to join hands for
strengthening responsible business practices.
• This organization helps stakeholders align their responsible practices
with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 10
Universally Accepted Global Compact Principles in Human Rights,
Labour, Environment, and Anti-Corruption.
• A website presentably reflecting the pursuit of our mandates, showcasing
our work in programmes, projects, activities and events, along with our
vision, values and success stories is imperative.
3. Purpose for
Website
Revamping
Goal: Revamping, redesigning and restructuring of the UN
GCNI website
Output: Identifying all the critical and pressing issues,
conceptualizing and defining scope of work through ToR
Audience: Our stakeholders who looking to align their
responsible practices towards the 10 principles and 17
SDGs
Benefits: An appealing interface and an effective, well-
designed website will be great for improving
communications and solidifying our professionalism when
soliciting support from our stakeholders and peers
Intension for RFP: To rearrange the valuable content,
designing an SEO-friendly website structure and easily
accessible and intuitive features
4. Scope of work*
• Phases: Find the right design/ UI - Fix the issues -
Relaunch Website - Maintenance.
• Requirements : Planning, Development and
Maintenance of the website.
• Deliverables: Highlight mandates that builds brand
image, Clearly showcase work and success stories,
Smooth & fast browsing , interactive and interlinked
pages.
*Detailed TOR in the attached document
5. Timelines
Find out the bugs and prepare a strategy (2 weeks).
Designing as per global standards ( 2 weeks).
Important content highlight and assembly (2 week).
Programming and development (1 week).
Testing and Review (1 week).
Re Launch
Maintenance, support & security.
6. Support to be provided
by GCNI
• Single Point of Contact (SPOC), facilities
communication b/w internal teams & vendor.
• Provides relevant information, data, images, videos
or documents in primed/organized format.
• Relevant feedback and approvals in accordance
with the given time frame.
• Any 3rd party liaising and assistance required for
deliverables
• SPOC for any information or dependencies as
required through implementation.
7. Eligibility / Evaluation & Selection
Criteria
PROFICIENCY IN
WEBSITE
DEVELOPMENT/
COMMS*
RESPONSIVE TO THE
REQUIRED DEMANDS
FROM UN GCNI
TRANSPARENCY
(REGST. CERTIFICTE,
TURNOVER
STATEMENTS ETC.)
PROVEN WORK-EX OF
3 YEARS (MINIMUM)
PASSES COST
BENEFIT ANALYSIS
8. Submission
and
Conditions
Applicants must
first complete the
specific CFP
template.*
UN GCNI
reserves the
right to withdraw
the RFP and
change any part
at any stage.
UN GCNI
reserves the
right to disqualify
any bidder at
any given stage.
All applications
must be
submitted in
English.
9. Legal Compliance
Adherence to:
• Commonly accepted standards and
practices, including W3C compliance.
• Data privacy & collection
• Copyright requirements
• Data security measures
• The submission of a proposal does not
lead to a legal entitlement to receive any
UN GCNI funding.
*Proficiency in HTML & CSS, HTML5 & CSS3, WordPress Developer (experience of Wordpress platform and creation / integration of various plugins. Must be able to create Wordpress themes or customized applets / pages as per the platform’s standards, able to deploy the Wordpress or HTML pages on servers) ; PHP Developer ( Should have experience of various PHP frameworks such as Laraval; Must be well aware of OOPs) ; Should be able to write optimised algorithms for various requirements; Must be proficient in establishing Database connection and handling queries ; Database Manager aware of RDBMS and knowing how to create effective database architecture ; UI/UX experience; Graphic Designer ( With working knowledge of designing tools such as photoshop, illustrator et.)
*To be drafted by UN GCNI
* The important decision here is on naming and categorizing content of drop-down menus. A search-box and social media icons need to be on top. Text on banners need to be crisp, emphatic and eye-catching.
* This element will include our CTAs and explain through collaterals (brochure, booklets, leaflets, flyers, write-ups etc) we develop, our mandate with utmost clarity
* This will include our links to Annual reports, Recent event reports, launches as well as newsletters, events, updates etc, which will give an overview of our ongoing/ upcoming activities This will be heavily customized to our needs and projections in the given time/ quarters.
* This will showcase our beneficiaries, members and connects along with chosen stories of impact from our recent interventions and biggest success stories from our journey of more than a decade.
* This will be at the bottom of Homepage. It will include CTA Signups for newsletters etc and navigating through pages on the website including our boilerplate texts, guideline, contact details etc. It may also contain an embedded twitter widget.