Make new web platform for UK Cohousing Network?
Just saw this http://cohousing.org.uk/news/new-web-communication-platform-expression-interest-sought deadline for expressions of interest Oct 18th. They have in the region of £20k for the work.
I think that smaller organisations are often less able to get broader strategic decisions made. That. along with staff changes and shifting trends can lead to increased frequency of rebuilds/redesigns.
I don't know how well resourced the Cohousing Network is, but this feels a bit like they are spending money in a very short time-frame, probably due to the constraints forced by the funder, and will risk ending up with something half-baked that won't be sustainable for them.
Indeed ... but really 'all' organisations struggle to make strategic decisions and getting them to stick once made! The plethora of dev platforms & comms channels has simply compounded the problem.
We developed the Drupal site before last for the Cohousing Network, the site was then re-themed by The Creative Co-op. Prior to our involvement they had another Drupal site in 2009 and before that a Joomla site.
Our Drupal developer left our co-op not long after working on their site, we don't have the developers in-house for a job like this at the moment so when we were sent an invite to express an interest we passed it onto our former developer (who doesn't have the capacity to work on it) and Agile Co-op.
I guess it's typical these days for organisations to switch content management systems and web development agencies and redevelop their sites every few years?