Request for Proposal for Webinar Presentations 2013

Request for Proposal for Webinar Presentations 2013

Organizational Overview

The Legal Services National Technology Project (NTAP) is housed at the Northwest Justice Project in Seattle and serves a nationwide audience of legal aid organizations. NTAP helps nonprofit legal aid programs improve client services through the effective and innovative use of technology. To do this, we provide technology trainings, maintain information, create online tools, and host community forums such as the LStech email list and a YouTube channel.

Request Overview

NTAP is responsible for providing the community with at least 10 webinars in 2013. NTAP is requesting proposals from interested vendors to host one or more structured online interactive web based trainings or webinars. These Webinars should cover topics, both cutting edge and in use currently, that will enhance the legal services community’s use of technology. The webinars should be 60 to 90 minutes in length with at least 15% of the time left for open questions and answers from the attendees.

Webinars can be presented using NTAP’s Join.me account or other on-line conferencing software. These webinars are free to the attendees.

NTAP is open to proposals that incorporate new ideas and technologies. Recordings of the 2011 & 2012 webinar series can be found at our YouTube Channel: youtube.com/NTAPvideos

Target Audience

Legal Aid professionals including:  lawyers, paralegals, executive directors, support staff and technology staff

Required Deliverable

1) Screencast: The online training must be recorded by the vendor for long term archival and use by the community. It must be done in a format that is easily transferable to YouTube or other publicly available video sharing sites.

2) Materials: Vendor is responsible for collecting course materials and slides from all speakers and providing them to NTAP to be posted online.

3) Survey: After each training, vendor will work with NTAP on a short survey to judge the communities reaction to the webinar and gather feedback on how to improve future trainings.

4) Licensing: All training content must be eligible for an open license, like a Creative Commons By Licenses, that allows the community to reuse and build upon the resources created from this project

5) Final Reporting: Each vendor must submit a short report on how the trainings performed. NTAP will conduct surveys after each training and share the results with vendors.

Topics:

Topics may include:

• Online Intake
• Social Media use in Legal Services
• Privacy & Security
• Disaster preparedness and Backups
• Free Tech/legal Resources
• Tech Tips
• Business Analytics for Legal Services
• Usability and Accessibility
• Limited English Proficiency (LEP) & Technology
• Translation Tools
• Case Management Systems
• Mobile Apps for Legal Services

We are looking for new applicable topics that will aid legal services offices, improve their technology infrastructure, as well as client services. Feel free to propose topics beyond this list.

Required Proposal Format

The proposal must contain a (1) a cost section (2) a technical section and (3) an experience section (4) references 

Cost Section

Vendor must provide a budget with cost possession. NTAP has a limited budget and must host at least 10 trainings for a total budget of $20,000. (This can be split between multiple vendors)

Please specify the number of trainings you are interesting in developing and presenting. All webinars must be presented during 2013.

Request for References

Vendor must include contact information for at least two references for similar work

Submission Deadline

January 15th 2013

Submit Proposal To:

Via Email to BrianR@Nwjustice.org

Brian Rowe

National Technology Assistance Project Coordinator

LSNTAP.org

For Additional Information or Clarification, Contact:

Brian Rowe

BrianR@NWJustice.org

National Technology Assistance Project Coordinator

LSNTAP.org

(206) 395-6094

Basis for Award of Contract

Cost, feature offered, and past experience

Award Date

February 1st, 2013