A Michigan agency is seeking a vendor to provide comprehensive website redesign, development, and migration support services. The primary objective is to transform the current website using mobile-first design principles, ensuring optimal accessibility and usability across smartphone, tablet, and desktop devices. The redesign should ideally leverage a modern front-end framework such as Bootstrap for consistency and maintainability.

Key responsibilities include conducting a thorough audit of site content, analytics, and technical environment, and defining success metrics. The vendor will create an accessible, component-based design system and develop responsive templates for various page types including the homepage, interior pages, staff/faculty listings, and academic program offerings. A notable feature will be the development of an interactive Program Finder, enabling users to search, filter, and compare programs, degrees, and certificates according to their interests and career aspirations.

The project also requires integration with a range of existing platforms such as Ellucian Recruit, Banner, blogs.nmc.edu, calendars, Career Coach, Issue, Smug Mug, College Raptor, You Visit, and multimedia services like Vimeo and YouTube. Content migration services must provide both automated and assisted options, ensuring seamless mapping to new templates, effective redirects, and minimal downtime. Additional requirements include thorough accessibility and performance testing, support for deployment and DNS cutover, and 30–90 days of post-launch support. All design assets, source code, and technical documentation must be delivered for ongoing maintenance.

The redesigned site must support a flexible, modular framework that enables non-technical staff to easily update and expand content. Adherence to accessibility standards, agency IT and data security policies, and best practices for SEO, Core Web Vitals, and generative AI visibility is essential.