Summary of Specifications:
Boulder County and the BoCo Strong Steering Committee, an organization dedicated to community resilience and social capital building, are seeking a qualified data scientist and designer contract individual or company to assist in creating an interactive, open source, digital toolkit. Resilience has become such a buzzword that we are seeing a rapid proliferation in projects and job titles that are all related to resilience, but not necessarily creating better collaboration between organizations or communities. We need help to stop inventing wheels and understand how resilient we already are!
Because of this, BoCo Strong is looking to compile a toolkit that will increase information sharing, provide accurate and sufficient data resources, and offer a common operating picture to people working on resilience in Boulder County. We need your expertise and your passion to make it happen.
The toolkit should provide interactive data visualizations, allow user data input, and offer robust search and filter capability through a graphical user interface to let BoCo Strong members
1. Visualize existing communication networks that are active in social media and email around the county 2. Identify organizations participating in resilience work in Boulder County 3. Easily search for and filter existing projects, project definitions, and project resources related to resilience work. 4. Identify and contact project leads and key network communication nodes around the county. Specifications and a sample contract with a CDBG-DR specific addendum are attached. The successful proposer shall execute the attached addendum as part of any contract with the county, and comply with all CDBG_DR requirements set forth in that addendum.
Written Inquiries All inquiries regarding this RFP shall be submitted via email to the Boulder County Purchasing Office at purchasing@bouldercounty.org on or before 3:00 p.m. 5/16/16. A response from the County to all inquiries shall be posted and sent via email no later than 4:00 p.m. 5/18/16.
Submittal Instructions Submittals are due at the Administrative Services Front Desk or the email box (preferred) listed below, for time and date recording on or before 10:00 a.m. Mountain Time on 5/23/16.
