About the Opportunity
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is launching a major digital modernization effort to strengthen how students, families, and educators access essential information online. This initiative aims to elevate the district’s digital presence through a more intuitive, accessible, and community‑centered website experience. SFUSD is seeking a partner who can help reimagine its public‑facing platform, improve usability across diverse school communities, and support a long‑term vision for clearer communication, stronger engagement, and equitable access to district resources.
Opportunity Overview
Due Date: April 24, 2026 at 5:00 PM PDT
Location: California, USA
SFUSD is procuring a vendor to deliver a comprehensive website redesign and ongoing maintenance service built on Drupal CMS, hosted on Pantheon. The selected partner will be responsible for developing a modern, scalable, and secure platform that enhances visual design, improves user interface patterns, and supports a seamless user experience for families, staff, and school communities. Vendors must demonstrate the ability to deliver accessible, mobile‑responsive templates, implement robust data‑security practices, and maintain a sustainable technical foundation that supports continuous updates and long‑term operational stability.
Capability areas include:
- Drupal CMS development (Pantheon hosting environment)
- UX and UI design for diverse school audiences
- Accessibility compliance and inclusive design
- Information architecture and content strategy
- Data security and privacy best practices
- Ongoing maintenance, monitoring, and performance optimization
- Visual design and front‑end theming
- Documentation, training, and support for district staff
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Why This Project Matters
A Technically Demanding Engagement
SFUSD is not a typical district website project. With nearly 50,000 students across 100+ schools, the platform must serve a genuinely diverse user base — multiple languages, varying devices, and a wide range of digital literacy levels — while remaining manageable for an in-house district team after handoff. The architecture needs to handle complex content relationships, granular permissions across departments and school sites, and multilingual workflows that go beyond simple translation toggles. Agencies with experience building maintainable, structured Drupal platforms for large public-sector clients will recognize the scope immediately.
Built for Handoff, Not Dependency
SFUSD needs a platform its staff can own. That means sensible content architecture, clear editorial workflows, and documentation that outlasts the engagement. Agencies that build for long-term maintainability — not ongoing reliance on the original vendor — are the right fit here.
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