The City of Kirkland is soliciting proposals from qualified providers for web solutions that fulfill the City’s requirements for a secure, compliant, configurable, and feature-rich solution. The Shop Local Kirkland website is mission critical to the Shop Local Kirkland initiative, an effort designed to assist Kirkland-based businesses and offer digital presence during and beyond the COVID-19 global pandemic, to encourage local shopping and patronage, and to consolidate business to business, education, training and procurement opportunities for local businesses. The City seeks expert implementation and deployment services to implement a pass through website that functions as a visually pleasing business listings directory; offers multiple options for linking consumers directly to businesses; accommodates easy administrative control over design, content and listings information; offers the capacity to accommodate incentive marketing efforts to drive traffic; offers the capacity for business to business interaction and resources; and is configurable for effective search engine optimization efforts.

The purpose of this RFP is to seek proposals from qualified proposers for a state-of-the-art Web CMS/MMS implementation, according to the minimum qualifications, minimum procurement requirements, and response forms set forth in this RFP.

The City requests firm-fixed-price proposals to design, develop and implement the website, provide professional services, implement a cloud service subscription and provide ongoing support services.