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PAA-Business: Technical RFQ for External Development 2022<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n SECTION ONE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Introduction Organizational Overview Founded in 1974, WESTAF is located in Denver, Colorado and governed by a 22-member board of trustees composed of arts leaders in the West. WESTAF serves the largest constituent territory of the six U.S. Regional Arts Organizations<\/span><\/a> (RAOs) and includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawai\u2019i, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Alongside the other six RAOs (a national collective of place-based nonprofit arts service organizations committed to strengthening America\u2019s infrastructure by increasing access to creativity for all Americans), WESTAF works across the United States to activate and operate national arts initiatives, encourage and support collaboration across regions, states, and communities, and maximize the coordination of public and private resources invested in arts programs.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n About Public Art Archive PAA\u2019s Vision SECTION TWO<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Project Goals The following major goals have been established for this project:<\/span><\/p>\n Project Budget Audience and Users Project Technologies SECTION THREE<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n RFQ Process and Evaluation Criteria Following initial assessment and scoring, WESTAF will select up to three candidates to move on to the next phase. Top candidates will be invited to participate in a 60-90 minute interview with WESTAF to discuss qualifications and skills. After all interviews have been conducted, a single vendor candidate will be identified and selected for the project.<\/span><\/p>\n Timeline<\/b> Responses Due: Feb. 18, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n Finalists Notified by Email: March 8, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n Finalist Interviews: March 9 – 18, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n Award of Contract: March 21 – 31, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n Tentative Commencement of Project: April 1, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n Tentative Completion of Project: Dec. 30, 2022<\/span><\/p>\n Please note the anticipated start and end dates for this project are tentative. We expect the technical work to begin in March 2022, with development to follow. Project end dates may extend beyond December 2022.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n SECTION FOUR<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Submission Requirements You may also download this PDF version of the same form<\/a> and submit directly to PAArchive@westaf.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n This information will be shared internally with WESTAF staff only for the purpose of evaluating and comparing respondents.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” centered_text=”true” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][nectar_btn size=”large” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” text=”Download the full RFQ” url=”https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/marketing.westaf.org\/westaf.org\/PAA_+Technical+RFQ+for+External+Development.pdf” css_animation=”fadeIn”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text] PAA-Business: Technical RFQ for External Development 2022 SECTION ONE Introduction The Public Art Archive\u2122 (PAA), a technology service powered by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,172],"class_list":["post-11687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-paa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/b><\/span><\/strong>The Public Art Archive\u2122 (PAA), a technology service powered by the Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF), requests vendor qualifications for a two-fold expansion project to include:<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/b><\/span><\/strong>WESTAF<\/span><\/a> (Western States Arts Federation) is a regional nonprofit arts service organization dedicated to strengthening the financial, organizational, and policy infrastructure of the arts in the West. WESTAF assists state arts agencies, arts organizations, and artists in their quest to serve diverse audiences, enrich the lives of local communities, and provide access to the arts and arts education for all. Through innovative programming, advocacy, research, technology, and grantmaking, WESTAF encourages the creative advancement and preservation of the arts regionally and through a national network of customers and alliances.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span><\/strong>Developed with the mission of making public art more public, the Public Art Archive<\/span><\/a> (PAA), a program created and managed by WESTAF, provides free and low-cost resources for the public art field. Built for artists, administrators, consultants, planners, educators, and researchers, audiences of all ages and backgrounds can engage with PAA\u2019s services, which include the ability to:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n
\n<\/b><\/span><\/strong>The vision of Public Art Archive is to capture, index, and inventory every piece of public art in the United States and eventually the world, and then make it free and universally accessible to all. Since the program\u2019s inception in 2010, its mission \u201cto make public art more public\u201d has guided continued growth into one of the largest active databases of public art, with over 17,000 records representing work from over 6,000 artists. Documentation spanning lived experiences, geographic boundaries, budgets, and work types are united by contributing organizations and artists into a centralized and freely accessible resource. This singular and authoritative database offers opportunities to discover and explore public art beyond the constraints of collection-specific websites.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n<\/b><\/span><\/strong>The budget for this project is $150,000 – $200,000, which includes both the technical audit and the technical planning and development.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span><\/strong>The PAA audience and user base is broken down into the following general categories:<\/span><\/p>\n\n
\n<\/b><\/span><\/strong>Public Art Archive uses the following technologies: WordPress, WP plugin development, Google Maps, MySQL, MongoDb, Apache Solr, CollectionSpace\/Nuxeo, Angular, Python and PHP.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span><\/strong>This RFQ has been provided to each respondent with the same deadlines and requirements since its effective date of Jan. 27, 2022. Submissions are accepted by form submission and email only. Respondents will be evaluated internally by members of WESTAF\u2019s business, technology, and leadership teams. The evaluation committee will conduct independent reviews of materials and submit scores on a scale of 1-10, with the following weighted categories:<\/p>\n\n
\nIssuance of RFQ: Week of Jan. 27, 2022<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/b><\/span><\/strong>A completed form must be submitted to WESTAF by 5 p.m. MST on Feb. 18, 2022<\/strong>. Upload supplemental materials through the Google form or email in PDF format to PAArchive@westaf.org<\/a> with the subject line: Response to Public Art Archive RFQ. You must sign in with your Google account to access the online form. Click here<\/a> to access the RFQ form, or type https:\/\/bit.ly\/paarfq<\/a>.<\/p>\n