2223-30-RCM-LJ WEB DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT and CONSULTANCY SERVICES

Tender description

Sheffield Hallam University has awarded a contract for front-end design and development services to enhance its websites, digital services and underlying design system. Lot 1: Front-end design and development services to enhance the university's websites, digital services and underlying design system. We expect this to include some or all of the following : • Support the design or improvement of small-scale web interfaces and templates, including prototyping and testing. The successful supplier will take an active role in developing and maintaining our design system, with input into the purpose of and rationale behind its constituent parts. • Provide consultancy on larger design and development projects, participating in discovery, definition and design activity such as stakeholder and user interviews, journey mapping and cross-function design critiques • Support future-proofing and ongoing compliance of design system through scheduled review processes, and through sharing new approaches, technologies and compliance needs with senior managers from Recruitment, Comms and Marketing (RCM) and Digital Technology Services (DTS). • Supply standardised, front-end code to support design and functionality changes, working closely with back-end developers. Page 4 to 13 • Provide a range of UX design and/or technical design options for each project, according to project needs. • Provide clear documentation for all front-end design and development work to support transparency and continuity across the University's web services. • Provide full access to final code and design files, to ensure the University can self-manage outputs. • Collaborate with University teams through University-managed work management systems, to be agreed at initiation stage of each project. These include Jira, Git and DevOps.