Blue Nature Alliance Website Redesign At Conservation International

Request for Proposals

Title: Blue Nature Alliance Website Redesign

RFP No: 001-Alliance-Website Redesign

Date of Issuance: 20 March 2023

Budget Range: 75K-100K

Background
Damaging fishing practices, pollution, and climate change are devastating the health of the global ocean, threatening ocean-connected communities, marine life, and essential natural resources. Science shows that protecting and conserving large areas of the ocean is necessary to regulate the climate, maintain essential biodiversity, and support the very air we breathe.

In 2020, five partners – Conservation International, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Global Environment Facility, Minderoo Foundation, and the Rob & Melani Walton Foundation – came together to form the Blue Nature Alliance. The Alliance seeks to safeguard ocean biodiversity, promote human wellbeing, and enhance ecosystem connectivity and function by catalyzing the conservation and management of 18 million km2 of ocean.

When successful the Alliance and our partners will have helped to protect more of the planet than any other privately led conservation effort in history. As of December 2022, the Alliance is investing in 23 ocean areas around the world that collectively cover an expanse larger than Europe and Australia combined.

Partnerships are central to every aspect of the Alliance’s work. The Alliance provides financial and technical resources to local and national governments, NGOs, Indigenous peoples, and scientists to advance effective large-scale ocean conservation. We also work with partners to bolster the shared learning and knowledge generation; financial business planning; science; policy mechanisms; and tools to benefit any site regardless of direct Alliance engagement.

Project Overview

The Blue Nature Alliance seeks to contract a qualified consultant (organization) to re-vision and redesign the Alliance website: www.bluenaturealliance.org.

The team views the current Alliance website, designed on Squarespace in 2020, as somewhat simple and stale. Further, as a Squarespace site, we have limited back-end CMS capabilities that inhibit our ability to display our expanding resources and news collections as well as the geographic breadth of our work.

As a dynamic, international team with partners and engagements around the world, the Alliance needs a site that captures the scope and scale of our conservation site portfolio. One must-have feature of the new website is an interactive, ocean-centric global map that captures the Alliance’s network of conservation areas, and it must be easy to edit in-house as our portfolio of sites and partners expands. We are also in need of enhanced knowledge management system(s) (e.g. a filterable publication library) to house and display our Alliance resources. Lastly, the site should reflect the Alliance’s values (see our partnership approach and Code of Conduct) and tell a persuasive, partner-forward story about our impact.

The project is expected to commence in May 2023 and conclude by October 2023.

Details of the RFP and application details can be found in the below link

https://www.conservation.org/about/procurement-opportunities