2026

An RFP is a filter. Publish the budget, give the content and document volumes, separate mandatory from rated criteria, state the contract terms, and never request speculative design.

Page migrations get planned. Document migrations get discovered. Inventory, triage, URL strategy and reconciliation, for the nine thousand PDFs nobody budgeted for.

A municipal website is a service counter, not a brochure. Planning for council cycles, document volume, bilingual capacity and accessibility is most of the work.

Canada has a federal standard, an Ontario statute and a Quebec standard, and procurement cites all three imprecisely. Here is what each one asks for, and what evaluators expect to see.