PURPOSE OF THE LGU WEBSITE
INFORMS THE PUBLIC
The official website of the LGU is a service of the Municipality/City or any government unit to provide accurate, non-editorial content that will inform, educate and enlighten the general public about the functions, services, activities, issues, operations, and projects of LGU government. Where appropriate, the website is also used to facilitate the delivery of direct services provided by the Municipality/City to its constituents and visitors. It serves as a platform for the municipal/city government to showcase the municipality’s/city’s accomplishments, programs and projects; to encourage citizen participation in the affairs of the municipality/city and to educate citizens about how the government works.

COMPLIANCE WITH TRANSPARENCY SEAL
National Budget Circular 542, issued by the Department of Budget and Management on August 29, 2012, reiterates compliance with Section 93 of the General Appropriations Act of FY2012. Section 93 is the Transparency Seal provision, to wit:

Sec. 93.  To enhance transparency and enforce accountability, all national government agencies shall maintain a transparency seal on their official websites. The transparency seal shall contain the following information: (i) the agency’s mandates and functions, names of its officials with their position and designation, and contact information; (ii) annual reports, as required under National Budget Circular Nos. 507 and 507-A dated January 31, 2007 and June 12, 2007, respectively, for the last three (3) years; (iii) their respective approved budgets and corresponding targets immediately upon approval of this Act; (iv) major programs and projects categorized in accordance with the five key results areas under E.O. No. 43, s. 2011; (v) the program/projects beneficiaries as identified in the applicable special provisions; (vi) status of implementation and program/project evaluation and/or assessment reports; and (vii) annual procurement plan, contracts awarded and the name of contractors/suppliers/consultants. The respective heads of the agencies shall be responsible for ensuring compliance with this section.

A Transparency Seal, prominently displayed on the main page of the website of a particular government agency, is a certificate that it has complied with the requirements of Section 93. This Seal links to a page within the agency’s website which contains an index of downloadable items of each of the above-mentioned documents.

Transparency At Work:

• Office of the President
• Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)

SERVICES
We will provide for a full-package development of the website of the LGU that covers the design, hosting and content development  detailed as follows:

Facilitate the registration of the official .gov.ph LGU domain name with the government agency exclusively in-charge of hosting government domains.

Develop a website that meets the standards of DILG as mandated by Sec. 93 (Transparency Seal) R.A. No. 10155 (General Appropriations Act FY 2012), with the look and feel that is neat and elegant yet all the information that needs to be conveyed to the public are there, easy to navigate, interactive and quick/easy to make updates.

Development of the highly informative and intensive content of the website.  The content (data, image, video) will be primarily provided for by the municipality/city.  However, we can help in the construction of the content thru research and actual content writing to provide for continuity and flow of the information in the website as well as photo/image editing so images fit into the theme and design of the website.

Provide a 99.99% uptime hosting solution thru our international hosting partner based in U.S.

Provide for an unlimited email address to the municipality/city using their own domain address such as mayor@lgu.gov.ph, vicemayor@lgugov.ph, etc…Total email capacity is subject to the maximum disk space usage limit.  A higher disk space capacity may be requested at an additional cost.

Free content management training (limited to the posting of new information and/ or editing) up to 10 hours.  Subsequent training on content management shall be charged a fee per hour.  Travel and accommodation expenses shall be charged to the municipality/city for out-of-office tutorial.

The website for the LGU will contain more or less the following information, features and functionalities.  Content shall be provided for by the LGU.

Recent Projects
Bids & Procurements
Job Vacancies
Events & Activities
What’s New (Recent News)
Calendar of Events
Download Forms
Contact Us
Announcement/Advisory
News Ticker
Visitor Counter
Tour video on homepage
Weather Watch
Photo Gallery
Donate button
Webmail

EXCLUSIONS

This proposal does not cover:

• HTML instruction
• Computer instruction
• Website design instruction
• Website support beyond the free 10 hours
• Website maintenance fees
• Website Hosting fee after 1 year from start of subscription
• Domain renewal of registration

SCHEDULE
This schedule defines the major tasks to be completed during the life of the project. Individual tasks may be added, deleted or moved as required to meet the demands of the design. The elapsed times are estimates and may vary depending on workload, changes, customer submissions, and third-party service providers.

Phase 1

• Proposal review
• Contract signing
• Initial payment – 1/2 of the total cost

Phase 2
Schedule is dependent on the timely submission of content by the municipality

• Decide on and register your domain name
• Site Design and Content development
• Client review and approval

Phase 3

• Final editing of content & design
• Final full payment – 1/2 of the total cost

Phase 4 (2 days)

• Transfer and handover of ownership of the site to you

DESIGN, CONTENT DEVELOPMENT & HOSTING FEES