As part of its efforts to increase the visibility of the COST programme and to establish a more strategic approach to communications, the COST Association is in need of a new website and related services that would meet the current standards in digital communications. Due to the need to develop, host and maintain the website over a long period of time, a pluriannual contract (4 years) is needed. The services to be performed will cover the following:

LOT 1: Web design and web development: Website design and CMS development with extended features like public databases, forums, collaboration, social media automation, search engine optimisation, registration systems and data visualisation;

LOT 2: Website-related marketing services: editorial services such as copywriting, web content proofreading; search engine optimised content; This lot is a lot on purchase order;

LOT 3: Web hosting and web maintenance as from launching of the website: Website hosting and maintenance of the main COST website;

LOT 4: Additional web development and web-marketing services as from launching of the website;

LOT 5: Web hosting and web maintenance for a multi-tenant CMS system: In addition to the main website COST considers to host the websites of its 300+ COST Actions on a multi-tenant CMS system. The hosting environment for this would need to be provided and maintained.