Correction to Attachment I .docx

This correction notice relates to RFQ 27ITS81MP01, issued by the Executive Office of Education on behalf of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), for website modernization services. The RFQ clarifies that detailed submission requirements for each response item can be found in RFQ Section 9, correcting a typographical error in Attachment I—Bidder Submission Checklist. This is a restricted RFQ limited to vendors already on the statewide ITS81 contract. The modernization project encompasses four phases: Business Requirements Refinement (4–6 weeks), Solution Architecture Design (6–8 weeks), Implementation with Prototype (10–14 weeks), and Data and Content Migration (4–6 weeks). The DESE website currently contains approximately 3,000 webpages and 12,000 downloadable documents managed by 54 content providers. Questions are due September 8, 2026, with proposals due September 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM. Award is estimated for the week of October 20, 2026, with project start November 5, 2026 and production go-live June 30, 2027. The resulting contract may extend to June 30, 2037 for related services.

Bidders must submit firm-fixed-price proposals for each phase using a cost response workbook and separate hourly rates for key resources, with rates held constant for the first three years and subsequent increases capped at 3% annually. Mandatory minimum qualifications include at least three years of experience delivering enterprise-wide website modernization projects within the past five years, with at least one government agency project, and demonstrated experience implementing at least one Drupal solution hosted on AWS. All proposed project staff must meet the three-year qualification threshold. The solution must migrate to Drupal 11 hosted on AWS with serverless and containerized deployment via AWS ECS Fargate, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipeline integration aligned with the Massachusetts Design System. All deliverables must achieve WCAG 2.1 or 2.2 Level A and AA compliance, with vendors required to provide an Accessibility Conformance Report and remediate any identified accessibility violations at no additional cost. CORI background checks are mandatory for all vendor and subcontractor personnel with access to EOE data, with specified disqualifying criminal convictions related to data security, computer crimes, intellectual property violations, white-collar crimes, violent felonies, and identity theft. Finalist bidders will present live demonstrations of comparable large-scale Drupal website modernization projects, with 60 minutes allocated for use case demonstrations and 20 minutes for questions.