Athletics Website and Application Design and Development

The University of Iowa is seeking a qualified supplier to provide hosting, design, and development of the University of Iowa Athletics website and application. The selected supplier must demonstrate the ability to provide a secure, scalable, accessible, user-friendly, mobile-responsive, and innovative platform and service model that supports Athletics’ marketing, communication, fan engagement, recruiting, storytelling, commerce, and operational objectives. The supplier must also provide a comprehensive digital engagement platform and related services, including website hosting and infrastructure, website design and development, mobile application design and development, CMS implementation, migration, configuration, and training, ongoing support, maintenance, optimization, and enhancements, accessibility review, remediation, and monitoring, and integration with ticketing, fundraising, CRM, streaming, statistics, marketing, social, and advertising platforms. • Key features of the proposed solution should include responsive design, unique custom design, support for homepage, sport pages, landing pages, microsites, campaign pages, and event pages, flexible page-building and content components, fast page load times, and scalable performance during high-traffic events. • The supplier must also provide a robust and flexible content management system that supports distributed publishing, governance, and efficient content administration. • The University requires a solution that can integrate with current and future third-party platforms and services, including ticketing platforms, CRM and marketing automation tools, fundraising platforms, streaming and video platforms, live statistics and XML or API-based data feeds, advertising and sponsorship systems, social media platforms, point-of-sale and commerce systems, identity and authentication services, and analytics and dashboarding tools. • The supplier must provide a detailed pricing structure for the proposed services, including discovery and strategy, design and development, CMS licensing, hosting and infrastructure, mobile app development and maintenance, accessibility testing and remediation, integrations, support and account management, optional services, and hourly rates. • The University prefers pricing transparency across one-time and recurring costs. • The supplier must provide at least three references for comparable engagements, including the organization name, address, contact name, title, phone number, email address, and a brief description of the services provided.