> On 14 Apr 2015, at 14:29, Ellis, Linda <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> We need the online resource to be live by June 2015 featuring one object from our collection with multi-layered content linked to that object. We want to be able to add more objects each with their own multi-layered content over time and expect the project to be live for at least 5 years.
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> We have a total of £15,000 (including VAT) put aside for this, but we wish to allocate £10,000 of this is to creating the multi-layered content. The proposed costings must include the graphic design of the website as well as the technical build and hosting for 3 years.
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> Responses must be sent by email and received no later than 9am on Monday 27 April 2015.
I will, no doubt, appear rude, [1] but you have declared a budget of £5000 for three years hosting for multilayered content *plus* graphic design, *plus* build and only a month to get it all done in.
It wouldn’t be unreasonable to spend £500 a year on hosting, but there’s no budget there for 5 years of updates and maintenance, and you’ve now only left £3,500 or (less than ten days work-time at average day-rates) to design and build. An agency that is VAT registered will have to look at an income of under £3000 to meet your including VAT constraint
It’s possible to create a basic site for that sort of budget, but to fit ten days work (and I suspect it needs more than that) into four weeks starting early(?) May would need a fairly empty order book for any agency.
I worry that for your budget and timescale you’ll probably get proposals that will make promises that the writer knows they can’t keep, which is a sad reflection on the industry.
I don’t suppose a massaged off the shelf WordPress theme would do? With all your ‘multi-layered' content hosted on YouTube/Vimeo; SoundCloud and Codepen (for example). If your timescale was more realistic I might be making a more considered response, but I have no real spare capacity for the next six weeks at least.
I hope you’ll take my comments as helpful and perhaps consider a more accommodating timescale or budget?
As they say - Good:Fast:Cheap - pick two, but not all three…
:o)
[1] I was hoping for pragmatic, concerned and helpful...
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