The City of Los Angeles is soliciting Task Order Proposals from on-call professional consultants from the pre-qualified Drupal Development and Support Area of Qualification to perform website migration services to Drupal/Acquia for the Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA). DCA currently uses a WP-Engine to host its main website, culture.lacity.gov, as well as WordPress as its web content management system. Additionally, DCA uses Bluehost for micro-sites, along with a WordPress CMS. All questions related to this Task Order Solicitation must be submitted by August 23, 2024, at 5:00 PM via the Google Form: https://forms.gle/WpQ3npnmkyXmnVr78 Responses will be posted on RAMP. Responses to the TOS must be received by September 11, 2024.
Background
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) is seeking to migrate its websites from WordPress to a more secure environment using Drupal/Acquia.
The current hosting solutions, WP-Engine and Bluehost, have security vulnerabilities that pose risks as DCA implements a class registration system requiring sensitive customer information.
The goal is to consolidate all DCA sites into one central hosting and management platform that is reliable, scalable, and robust enough for future plans.
Work Details
The awarded contractor will provide Drupal Development and Support services, including:
1. Kickoff & Discovery: Confirm approach and processes; additional discovery on systems integration and content/data migration requirements for culture.lacity.gov.
2. Development Environment Setup: Establish staging and production environments on Acquia Cloud Site Factory; set up site source structure and build tools; automated testing setup; mapping content sources for feeds and migration.
3. Building Content Types and Taxonomy: Configure Panels and Panelizer for content types; set up primary navigation structure; responsive base theme configuration; WYSIWYG configuration; SEQ/meta tags configuration; media library configuration; initial content migration setup.
4. Building Shared Page Components: Create sub-themes for various DCA sites including promisezonearts.org, southlaculture.org, etc.; system integration with responsive themes.
5. Building Calendar and Event Listing Pages: Configure search functionality with Acquia Search; theming for shared components; cross-browser/device testing of sub-themes.
6. Backend Feature Wrap-Up: Theming for calendar/search features; support for feeds/embeds; UAT/QA review of site functionality.
Period of Performance
The contract performance period is not explicitly stated in the provided solicitation details but proposals are due by September 11, 2024.
Place of Performance
The services will be performed remotely, focusing on the websites hosted by the Department of Cultural Affairs in Los Angeles.
