Content Management System

Request for Proposals (RFP) – Content Management System RFP 

About FCC 

FCC is Canada’s leading agriculture and food lender, with a healthy loan portfolio of more than $44 billion. Our employees are dedicated to the future of Canadian agriculture and food. We provide flexible, competitively priced financing, management software, information and knowledge specifically designed for the agriculture and food industry. As a self-sustaining Crown corporation, we provide an appropriate return to our shareholder, and reinvest our profits back into the industry and communities we serve. For more information, visit fcc.ca. 

RFP Scope: 

FCC wants to modernize our tech-stack for marketing content which includes replacing our legacy CMS to a composable architecture to support our public facing websites (primarily fcc-fac.ca and agexpert.ca, with additional microsites) and enable an omnichannel experience. These expectations have put new demands on how FCC content should be managed digitally, leading FCC to choose a headless content management system (CMS) to provide a central hub for authoring, assembling, editing, and managing content. In addition to the backend, FCC also will choose a frontend framework that works with the backend to build the UI for the public facing websites using APIs. This framework will provide a unified data layer to enable FCC developers to easily combine data from different sources, including the headless CMS, and render them alongside each other. FCC’s goal is to procure a headless CMS and a frontend framework that is compatible with this backend. FCC is looking to have an architecture that is: 

• Lightweight 

• Composable: the CMS will do the content management and we will leverage tools for frontend, analytics, search, personalization, etc. 

• Requires less proprietary expertise: we want to leverage mature open-source projects with robust documentation. 

• Omnichannel: using REST APIs, to easily integrate into the website itself, but also mobile apps and digital banking sites. 

Estimated quantity of commodity: N/A 

Duration of contract:  Term length (including option years) of up to 10 years 

Time frame of delivery Term length (including option years) of up to 10 years 

Any conditions for participation of suppliers not specified in solicitation documentation: N/A 

RFP Schedule: 

• RFP issue date: October 6, 2022 

• Vendor questions accepted until: October 26, 2022 at 2:00 PM CST (SK time) 

• RFP closing date and time: November 15, 2022 at 2:00 PM CST (SK time) 

*Note: All times are CST, Saskatchewan 

RFP Process Considerations

Vendors should note that: 

• this opportunity notice references a non-binding, competitive RFP, not a call for tenders. FCC is not obligated to proceed with the work described in the RFP scope and may cancel the RFP at any time. 

• FCC’s procurement process allows for negotiation between FCC and one or more vendors, prior to awarding a contract. 

Requesting the RFP Document:

Capable vendors who are interested in receiving a copy of the RFP document are to contact:

Dhruv Bhatt

Procurement and Vendor Manager 

Farm Credit Canada

procurement@fcc.ca 

Note: Vendors do not receive the RFP document by registering for the list of interested suppliers (“LIS”) on buyandsell.ca. Vendors must request the RFP document through FCC’s designated RFP contact.