Request For Proposal (RFP)

Retail E-commerce Web Site
Company Background
Currently, we are a small team of highly specialized individuals with years of experience in application development web design, web development. We began with a very simple goal: The catalyst for your life means we act as catalyst for your business needs in information processing. We accomplish this by providing solutions that drive business goals – creating awareness, generating leads, and improving customer satisfaction.
Project Description (According to our assumption)
The objectives of the e-commerce site are to process sales on-line, maintain effective on-going communication with existing customers and attract new customers by providing products on-line. The expansion of this retail e-commerce will include the development on an on-line storefront with live credit card processing.
Technical and Infrastructure Requirements
•The store must be designed to run on Windows 2003 server running SQL Server and IIS.
•The site must be programmed in ASP.NET with C#.
•All programming must meet strict W3C standards as outlined on the w3c.org web site.

Functional Requirements
•On-line Catalog
Each item includes a name, price, description and three images.

•Shopping Cart
Ability for customers to add products/services to a cart. Each item added should display other complimentary items to the customers.

•Credit Card Processing
Visa, MasterCard, Discover and Pay Pal must be accepted safely on-line using 128-bit encryption.
•Order History
Every customer should have the capability to see a history of all their orders for up to one year.

Estimated Project Duration
The completed project will be delivered or launched depends on your requirement by 4 complete months from the starting date of the project.

For Additional Information or Clarification
Contact: Chandra Sekhar Talasila, Chandrasekhar_talasila@yahoo.com, chandu@itcookies.com

Basis for the dead lines and project to be paid
Proposals will be evaluated on the following criteria:
Freezing the requirements -20% of the total payment (1 month)
Designing -20% of the total payment (1 ½ months)
Complete build submission with testing – 30% of the total payment (2 months)
After 2 months complete maintenance – 30% of the total payment