Website Development Service using CMS

The Scottish Refugee Council is seeking a website development service using a Content Management System to build one new consolidated platform. The agency needs to merge its main website with the Refugee Festival Scotland site, which includes preserving the festival's events, programme functionality, and archive. The project also requires migrating the Cross Borders site as a preserved archive or retiring selected content from that concluded programme. The agency requires a minimalist, fast, mobile-first platform with intuitive navigation, a clear content structure, and multilingual capability including right-to-left languages. The chosen system must achieve accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA standards and provide an easy-to-use content management system for non-technical staff with role-based permissions, editorial workflows, and locked template pages. Administrative features must include the ability to edit, reject, unpublish, and set review or expiry dates on listings, alongside workflows that flag broken links and outdated pages. During the discovery phase, the agency requires audience analysis to identify priority user groups, their primary tasks, and their content needs. This analysis will guide the recommendation of a content structure and navigation architecture that prioritises key audiences, which the agency will then use to phase the launch. The agency also demands clear labeling and justification of any artificial intelligence tools used, alongside detailed ethical and environmental considerations regarding the site and its hosting carbon footprint. Eligible bidders must be onshore United Kingdom organisations. The performance of all contracted work will take place offsite. Bidders must submit their proposals digitally via email or online, and the agency is currently looking for proposals to determine the budget. All questions regarding this opportunity must be submitted no later than July 6, 2026.