WFD Website Hosting and Support Services

WFD is seeking a reliable provider to deliver ongoing hosting, technical support, security, maintenance and development services of www.wfd.org.

Our website is a key WFD communication channel. It provides information about WFD's experience, relevance, activities, and impact to a range of audiences around the world including citizens, governments, members of parliament, parliamentary staff, academics and researchers.

The website must be compliant with all relevant legislation, including the Data Protection Act and the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018. It must also comply with the UK Government secure website principles: Security overview for websites - The GDS Way.

Deliverables and scope of work includes but not limited to:

Hosting www.wfd.org

Providing ongoing technical maintenance and services for www.wfd.org including but not limited to:

Ongoing maintenance of the CMS (including bugs and CMS updates)

Annual usability/accessibility review

Ensuring the website is secure and compliant with the relevant regulations, including accessibility standards

Ensuring processes are in place for the monitoring and analysis of website performance, and supporting WFD to evaluate its effectiveness.

Build new or change existing website functionality for www.wfd.org as requested by WFD on a day rate basis.

Providing strategic advice and recommendations for improving the website

Website specification

Content management system: (CMS) Drupal 10

File tree size (except public files): 402M

Public files: 6.3G

Private files: 464K

Database:

MySQL dump size: 52M

MySQL size on disk (including indexes, etc): 910M

Number of modules:

Contrib Drupal modules: 77

Custom Drupal modules: 6