Legal Services NYC
Legal Support Unit Online Training Center
REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS (RFQ)
Legal Services NYC provides much needed legal help on a full range of civil
matters to tens of thousands of New Yorkers currently living in poverty – and
who have nowhere else to turn. For the past 40 years, our organization has
maintained a singular, overriding mission: to provide expert legal assistance
that improves the lives and communities of low-income New Yorkers. Today Legal
Services NYC is the largest provider of free civil legal services to the poor
in the nation, with 18 community-based offices and numerous outreach sites
throughout all five boroughs. Legal Services NYC’s Legal Support Unit (LSU)
trains, mentors and supports attorneys and other advocates and also provides a
comprehensive Continuing Legal Education program.
The LSU is planning to develop and launch significantly enhanced and expanded
version of their current web application in September 2008. The current
application was built following the FuseBox development methodology and using
PHP 4, MySQL, and QuickTime technologies. The development will improve the
user and administrative interfaces, the modularity and extensibility of the
application, and add new functionality to the center. Existing data and
accounts will be ported to the new application.
Vendor Profile/Services Required
We are looking for a design and development team that is entirely based in the
New York metropolitan area, that has extensive website, e-commerce, multimedia,
and database building experience to help the LSU develop the next version of
its web application. We expect to utilize open source database, scripting and
development tools. We anticipate a total of work requiring between 400 and 600
person hours including the discovery and QA phases. The selected team would
need to begin work by May 1st to meet the project deadlines.
All parties who are:
a) based in New York metropolitan area
b) interested in receiving a Request for Proposals (RFP) detailing the
full scope of work, including initial specifications and a tour of the existing
system
shall respond by February 22, 2008 by providing us with:
a) relevant design and development qualifications
b) company information/biography
c) a signed and witnessed copy of the attached Confidentiality Agreement
(Please copy the text of the Confidentiality Agreement at the end of this
announcement on to your letterhead before returning an electronic version of
the document to us.)
Please email responses to tech at lsny dot org. Legal Services NYC in its sole
discretion shall determine whether a party responding to this RFQ shall be
eligible to receive the RFP.
Project Time line
February 22-- Deadline for response to RFQ
February 25 – Email RFP to qualified teams
Week of February 25 – Web conference to tour the existing web application with
potential RFP participants
March 14 – Deadline for receipt of RFP
April 4 – Award of contract
May – Discovery phase for specifications and design
June – Application programming phase
July 15 – Completion of development and design work and beginning of LSU
testing
August 4 – Soft launch of site for LSU staff final QA process
August 25 – Go live with the new site
CONFIDENTIALITY AND NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT
WHEREAS, Legal Services NYC agrees to furnish _____________________ certain
confidential information relating to ideas, inventions or products for the
purposes of determining an interest in developing, manufacturing, selling
and/or joint venturing;
WHEREAS, ___________________ agrees to review, examine, inspect or obtain such
confidential information only for the purposes described above, and to
otherwise hold such information confidential pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement.
BE IT KNOWN, that Legal Services NYC has or shall furnish to
_____________________ certain confidential information and may further allow
_____________________ the right to discuss or interview representatives of
Legal Services NYC on the following conditions:
1. _____________________ agrees to hold confidential or proprietary information
or trade secrets ("confidential information") in trust and confidence and
agrees that it shall be used only for the contemplated purposes, shall not be
used for any other purpose, or disclosed to any third party.
2. No copies will be made or retained of any written information or prototypes
supplied without the permission of Legal Services NYC.
3. At the conclusion of any discussions, or upon demand by Legal Services NYC,
all confidential information, including prototypes, written notes, photographs,
sketches, models, memoranda or notes taken shall be returned to Legal Services
NYC.
4. Confidential information shall not be disclosed to any employee, consultant
or third party unless they agree to execute and be bound by the terms of this
Agreement, and have been approved by Legal Services NYC.
5. This Agreement and its validity, construction and effect shall be governed
by the laws of the State of New York.
AGREED AND ACCEPTED BY:
Date:_______________
By:_____________________________
Title:____________________________
On behalf of:______________________
Witness:___________________________
By:______________________________
Title:__________________________
On behalf of: Legal Services NYC
_______________________________________________
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