The Treasury is seeking a professional services and support supplier to migrate and support six public facing websites currently running on Drupal 7. This may involve an upgrade to a later version of Drupal or a migration to an alternative CMS platform. The primary goal is to transition these sites off Drupal 7 ahead of Drupal 7 reaching its end-of-life in November 2021.

This will be a shared project across the Treasury and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC).

As per the Registrations of Interest engagement December 2019 – February 2020 we are looking for a capable and experienced provider to provide estimates for professional services to plan, design, build, implement, and maintain a web solution. The provider must have a proven record of successfully implementing web capability at a similar level of complexity and sensitivity, and be able to offer ongoing, support.

The respondents may propose any suitable Content Management System(s) as part of the proposal and additionally may choose to include a hosted solution option as part of their proposal.

We require:

a. Content Management solution with general capability that is transparent to understand and support and which can be relatively easily amended in future.

b. Demonstration that the provider has the capability and capacity to meet objectives within the required timeframes.

c. Authoring processes and workflow systems that enable our ‘embargo’ process to be supported, e.g. a very large volume of content classified up to ‘Sensitive’ needs to be reviewed, edited, approved, and kept protected over an extended period of time, prior to being published simultaneously at a set date and time at various locations on a website.

d. Content Management capability to handle content that is classified up to ‘Sensitive’.

e. A low risk approach with demonstrated milestones throughout the transition process.

f. Suppliers to indicate whether they can offer a managed service and or a Corporate and Shared Services (CSS I&T) hosted solution.