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OCII awards up to $100,000 for website overhaul to local firm
Summary
OCII authorized a two-phase, up-to $100,000 personal services contract with San Francisco-based lowercase productions to redesign and reorganize the OCII website on Drupal, with a phase-1 scope target by Aug. 1 and a planned site launch in fall 2019.
The commission authorized a contract for a website redesign with lowercase productions, a San Francisco-based small business enterprise, in a two-phase engagement not to exceed $100,000.
Max Barnes, OCII project associate for media and public relations, said the existing site has become "inundated with documents and in need of a major reorganization," and described goals including a clickable project map, clearer affordable-housing and developer resources, a document archive, and embedded social-media feeds. Barnes said the work will be built on Drupal, the city’s content-management system, to simplify migration.
The contract is structured in two phases. Phase 1 (funded in FY 17–18) covers a technical audit, content strategy and information architecture. Phase 2 (FY 18–19) covers digital design, engineering, staff training and deployment. Barnes said phase 1 onboarding would begin immediately upon contract approval and that staff hopes to have phase 1 scope underway by Aug. 1; the full site build and launch is targeted for fall 2019.
Commissioners asked for a stronger visual 'wow' factor and for the new site to improve public access to affordable-housing resources and project documents. Commissioner Singh asked what "Drupal" is; Barnes explained it is the city’s template content-management system and that migrating Drupal-to-Drupal eases the transfer.
The commission approved the contract on a 4–0 roll-call vote.
Next steps: Staff to execute the personal services contract with lowercase productions, begin phase 1 onboarding and convene focus groups and staff reviews as part of the information-architecture and design process.
