We are UK-based web-publishing company who have outgrown our current CMS (Content Management System). We are looking to change our current CMS systems to manage one of our sites. The new Content Management System should be able to support:-
Blogs
User Forums
News Articles
Spidered Content from other sites
Importation of content from other sites
Home grown features
Article and software downloads
Surveys
User Polls
Calendar Events
Self Posting of articles from site users Article ratings and comments User registration Search facility for all home grown articles and spidered content The ability to host third party plug-ins Newsletters and sending newsletters to all or a specified group of subscribers.
The support of mini web-sites.
On-going support and development.
Our preference is that your solution is built using an opensource CMS such as DotNetNuke, Plone, Drupal
For clarification and A 25-page brief is available, please email me
## Deliverables
1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):
a) For web sites or other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.
b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request.
3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement).
## Platform
Ideally built on an open source CMS such as: DotNetNuke, Plone, Drupal