The Borough of Point Pleasant Beach is requesting proposals for a webmaster to provide three services related to its website:  (1) hosting the Borough’s website, (2) redesign and maintenance of the existing website located at www.PointPleasantBeach.org, and (3) periodic updates to the Borough’s website. The webmaster will perform these services under the direction of the Borough of Point Pleasant Beach staff.
 
The Borough of Point Pleasant Beach is a municipality of about 5,000 residents in the winter and 30,000 in the summer, located in Ocean County, New Jersey.  Point Pleasant Beach is a beach town, situated along the Atlantic coast at the top of the Inland Waterway. The Borough of Point Pleasant Beach uses a Mayor-Council form of government and has about fifty full time employees.
 
Responsibilities:
 

• Review, maintain, and update existing Borough of Point Pleasant Beach web pages for accuracy, currency, and functionality
• Work with the Borough to create a new design that gives the site a professional, attractive, and contemporary look
• Identify the optimum server platform and development language for the new website, considering both functionality and cost
• Migrate the current website content to the new design
• Develop and maintain functional links for Tax and Utility payment, Swift 911, Report It App and Point Pleasant Beach App
• Integrate one-click social media profile join buttons for Facebook and Twitter
• Provide a web interface that can accommodate individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.  (See www.ada.gov/websites2_prnt.pdf)
• Maintain documentation of the Borough’s website
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as required and as time allows.

 
Additional Requirements:
 

• The new site must be designed for continuous operation, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with maintenance windows clearly defined.
• The Borough of Point Pleasant Beach will be in charge of content management and will own all content. 
• No web design company indictors will be permitted on the website.
• The webmaster must identify a hosting facility outside its institutional technical architecture.

 
 
Qualifications:
The webmaster must possess excellent technical, verbal and written communication skills, be able to work independently, and have the ability to work with multiple constituents.  The successful candidate will possess significant working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, VB, ASP, and SQL.
 
 
Minimum Proposal Contents:

• A description of the respondent’s ability to fulfill the responsibilities described above
• Examples of websites created by the respondent
• Requested compensation
• Costs for software or hardware associated with the development of the new website, if any
• A proposed timeline for the development of and migration to the new website.

 
Finalists will be contacted by the Borough of Point Pleasant Beach or designees to discuss details of the proposal.  Discussions will lead to negotiation and then ultimately to a contract between the Borough of Point Pleasant Beach and the selected institution or individual. 
 
Contacts and Deadline:
Send proposals, no later than December 31, 2018 at noon to:
Christine Riehl, Borough of Point Pleasant Beach, 416 New Jersey Avenue, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ 08742 or CRIEHL@POINTBEACH.ORG
 
Electronic submissions are preferred.