This vendor has been providing the contracted CMS as a service offering since then as the endorsed Monash CMS. While the platform has been meeting the business needs of the majority, there are some departments that require an alternative for their business needs. This has led to some pockets of the business utilising alternative products. The main alternatives are Wordpress, Drupal & Joomla based sites.

There are around 80 existing Monash Business web sites based on either WordPress, Drupal or Joomla, that will need to remain on these platforms for the next 3 years. The main objective of this exercise is to work with a partner who shares Monash's vision to transform its Web Presence to improve our present user experience and cater for needs of the business. Monash is seeking a partnership with the software as a service provider to migrate and manage these sites over the next three years.

A public RFQ is proposed to reach out to vendors that can provide WordPress, Drupal and Joomla as a service.

As well as the Mandatory criteria set out below, the business requires:
Australian Public Cloud hosting
A vendor with a Melbourne Presence
Migration and Managed services capability for all three open source platforms.

Requirements:
Platform as a Service to provide unified open source Content Management Systems built upon Drupal, Joomla and WordPress.
Maintenance and support 24x7, 365 days a year, with timely application of security patches and updates.
Monitoring and reporting of availability and reliability of services.
Ability to automatically scale to increase or reduce capacity to meet demand.
Regular database and file backups.
Meet expectations with security and compliance. Provide service protection against distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks and other security risk.
Formulate and execute a migration strategy from Monash for approximately 80 existing Drupal, Joomla and WordPress sites to the new managed platform. The majority of these sites are low in complexity with around 10% mid to high complexity and size.
Provide standard templates in line with Monash branding.
Provide services for customised template creation.
Develop a supported number of plugins that will allow for a common toolset; example identity management, single sign on, or integration.
Meets Monash University's Data retention policies.
Development services available if and when required.
Proven experience in the Public sector and or Government.
Ability to execute(migrate all 80 sites) no later than end of the year 2016.