Active SLED Opportunity · NEW YORK · NEW YORK
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The University at Buffalo seeks proposals for a cloud-based, mobile-friendly campus portal with role-based access, mobile-first design, analytics, native apps, and emergency alert integration. The contract is up to $125,000 under discretionary procurement.
The University at Buffalo intends to make an award under our discretionary authority, pursuant to NYS Education Law §355 (5) (a), which is up to $125,000, for the above noted commodity/product or service. A sealed bid will not be held. If you are interested in providing a proposal for the above commodity/product or service, you must contact the appropriately designated Campus contact in this advertisement within 15 business days of this Advertisement Notice. The University at Buffalo (“University”) seeks a cloud-based, mobile-friendly campus portal to streamline access to services and information for students, faculty, and staff. The portal must fully support the following capabilities: Role-Based Access: Supports custom audiences and roles, ensuring users see only the content relevant to their needs. Google-like Search: To enable users to quickly find and launch campus resources. Mobile-First Design: Ensuring a responsive experience across smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. Custom Branding: Supports institutional branding, allowing customization of logos, colors, style, etc. Analytics and Monitoring: Offers visualization and reports of usage patterns, and ability to tie the portal to Google Analytics account Scalable: The portal should have implementations at multiple R1 universities, and be able to support 40,000+ University At Buffalo users. Native Apps: Capability to create Native App for iOS and Android. Single sign-on: Utilizing using Shibboleth and/or InCommon. RESTful API: For both pushing and pulling information to/from the platform. Support of Common Alert Protocol: For pushing emergency alerts from an external emergency management system for prominent display in the portal. Personalization: Allow users the ability to: Customize their views and create favorites for quicker access to desired resources. Ability to reorder their Favorite resources. View a history of recently used apps and tasks, or browse the most popular and top-rated tasks to discover more. Provide feedback and ratings on individual tasks or the portal itself Backend Administration system: Allow authorized administrators and content providers the ability to: Define and setup groups and roles. Define targeted segments of users based on any criteria. Publish tasks and content and target it by role or segment. Define keywords for tasks and content, to improve search results. Arrange and categorize tasks for easy access. Schedule date-based announcements, banners, and tasks for any role or segmented population. Schedule Future Alerts and Announcements for recurring events. Business enterprises awarded an identical or substantially similar procurement contract within the past five years: TransAct Communications LLC Minority / Women Business Enterprise contracting goals (MWBE) MBE Goal: 18.00% WBE Goal: 12.00%
SLED stands for State, Local, and Education. These are solicitations issued by state governments, counties, cities, school districts, utilities, and higher education institutions — as opposed to federal agencies.
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