Agency Human Services Dept

Contractor SDK Technical Services

SWIFT Contract Number MwK%119642

Project Name Autism Resource website

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Summarize purpose of the contract, including why it was necessary: The autism resource website project was funded through legislated funds to develop a statewide resource for families, people with autism, professionals and other stakeholders. Disability Services was tasked with this work and did not have the capacity to do this work. A contractor was needed to support this work.

Web Content Manager (Patrick Mulder) as Web Content Manager for Autism Resource website.

Project Duration

Start Date Tue, 01/10/2017 - 00:00

Original end date Fri, 06/30/2017 - 00:00

Actual end date Tue, 10/31/2017 - 00:00

Did project finish on time? Yes

Total billable hours utilized (if applicable) 1620

Contract Amounts

Original contract: $113100

Amendments $28240

Contract total $141340

Did project finish within budget? Yes

What was the funding source? State funds – 33178 Autism Website and 32830 Disab

Is this a sole source contract? No

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Evaluator Name Taylor Kearns

Evaluator Email Address taylor.kearns@state.mn.us

Evaluate the contractor's timeliness Was always on time and conscientious of being available and meeting business needs. Was very quick to meet work requests / tasks and deliver the work. As DHS staff were leading the objectives, the contractor played a supporting role and they performed in that role very well.

Evaluate the contractor's quality Patrick provided excellent technical capacity to the project after he was comfortable with how to design/develop within the Tridion content management system software. Learning the Tridion platform is a time consuming activity and Patrick learned quickly and even did some things that were “innovative” to how Tridion was used. His work quality was generally very good and when there were opportunities for improvement, Patrick took direction very well and did what was asked of him.

Evaluate the contractor's cost $87 per hour
Cost for work was very competitive and reasonable.

Evaluate the contractor's overall performance Overall, the contractor was responsive to requests, took initiative while still following directives from DHS staff and was very helpful in the design and development of the project. Further, the contractor really took the project in a personal way, which showed in their motivations and excitement for the project. Had to coach contractor at times how to interact with different areas /partners but contactor was very receptive to feedback/direction.

Would you engage the contractor's services again? Yes

Describe any negative action taken during the duration of this contract (i.e., termination, pursuit of suspension, etc.): None

Please rate the overall experience with the contractor 4 - satisfied