1 Introduction

ABAI needs a website that does three jobs reliably: inform the community, take memberships and donations safely, and let the committee update content without touching code.

This proposal responds to ABAI's May 2026 RFP. Where the RFP is clear, we confirm delivery. Where a single line implies a feature whose true cost is multiples of the €5,000 budget, we say so and propose a scoped alternative so ABAI receives a finished product rather than a half-built one.

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2 Project Objectives

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3 Scope of Work

Each subsection below mirrors the matching section of ABAI's RFP, with items numbered in the same order so you can check our response line by line. Tables hold the mechanical checklist of features. Where a single RFP line implies a much larger build, the load-bearing decisions (payment gateway choice, jobs moderation model, live-class delivery, admin tooling, performance and uptime realism) are pulled out into short prose paragraphs labelled Scope boundary so they are not buried inside a checklist row.

3.1 Information Hub

1. 1

   Homepage news/announcements/events

   Living-dashboard layout: hero, news strip, upcoming events

2. 2

   Ireland news for the community

   Dedicated content type with category filters

3. 3

   Important links (immigration, health, welfare, legal)

   Curated, categorised directory

4. 4

   Interactive events calendar

   Events plugin with month, list, and upcoming views

5. 5

   EU information corner

   Dedicated landing section

6. 6

   Photo / video gallery

   Event-based albums with lightbox and lazy loading

7. 7

   About ABAI (vision, mission, values)

   Single page; ABAI supplies copy

8. 8

   ABAI activities (cultural, religious, welfare, fundraising)

   Themed groupings, editor-extensible

9. 9

   Committee Members directory

   One card per member; swappable each term

10. 10

    Full ABAI history

    Vertical timeline driven by a milestone content type

11. 11

    Archive of past activities

    Year-filtered, searchable archive

3.2 Employment Platform

1. 1

   Job listings for the community

   Curated job board; filters for category, location, contract

2. 2

   Employer / recruiter posting

   Moderated submission workflow (see Scope boundary below)

3. 3

   CV writing tips & employment resources

   Editorial pages authored by ABAI in Elementor

4. 4

   Links to official Irish job portals & training

   Categorised outbound directory (jobsireland.ie, Solas, Springboard+)

5. 5

   Job alerts for registered members

   Weekly opt-in email digest

Scope boundary - jobs moderation. Employer postings run on a BDJobs-style moderated workflow: the employer pays via Stripe, submits supporting documents, and ABAI verifies before the post goes live. A fully open, LinkedIn-style self-service portal (employer KYC, automated billing, and anti-scam moderation tooling) is a substantially larger engineering effort and sits respectfully outside the scope of the current budget; we would be glad to scope it as a future phase whenever ABAI is ready.

3.3 Education Platform

1. 1

   School/college/university + scholarship info

   Editorial pages by stage; ABAI maintains via admin

2. 2

   Arabic/Quran classes for Irish-born children

   Schedule, registration, teacher profiles, syllabus, join-links

3. 3

   Religious classes timetable + registration

   Recurring calendar with per-session registration and reminder emails

4. 4

   Irish University & College Guide

   Institution directory with course area, fees, outbound links

5. 5

   Career pathways (healthcare, tech, engineering, finance, education)

   Static editorial guidance pages; ABAI supplies source content

6. 6

   Scholarship & bursary directory

   Filterable directory (SUSI, government, university, international)

Scope boundary - live classes. The website schedules, registers, and links out to live classes; it does not host video streaming. Live sessions run on Zoom or Google Meet under ABAI's own accounts, and the website carries the join-links. Building in-site multi-party video is a separate, considerably larger undertaking that falls outside the present budget; we would welcome the chance to plan it as a dedicated phase if and when ABAI decides to bring streaming in-house.

3.4 Membership & Payments

1. 1

   Open public membership platform

   Public sign-up at /membership via Paid Memberships Pro or MemberPress

2. 2

   Tiers (Individual, Honorary)

   Configured as Stripe products with per-tier gating

3. 3

   Donation-based Honorary upgrade

   Automatic Honorary badge once the donation threshold is crossed

4. 4

   Secure payment gateway

   Stripe Elements (PCI-DSS); EU DPA in place

5. 5

   Member login + profile area

   Profile edit, status view, branded PDF certificate download

6. 6

   Renewal reminders + receipts

   Stripe Billing for charging; transactional email via Postmark or Resend

7. 7

   Admin panel + CSV export

   Membership plugin admin; exports include donations and honorary log

Scope boundary - Stripe only. We recommend Stripe as the sole gateway. Stripe alone covers cards (Visa, Mastercard, Amex), Apple Pay, Google Pay, SEPA, Klarna, and Revolut Pay. Adding PayPal as a second gateway doubles reconciliation work for ABAI's treasurer without adding meaningful coverage.

3.5 Admin Dashboard (No-Code Control Panel)

1. 1

   Add/edit/delete pages with no code

   Full content CRUD via Elementor visual editor

2. 2

   Add navigation menus and sections

   Standard WordPress Menus + Customiser

3. 3

   Manage members, events, donations, jobs from one dashboard

   Unified WordPress admin sidebar

4. 4

   Drag-and-drop page builder

   Elementor Pro

5. 5

   Activity log of admin changes

   WP Activity Log plugin

6. 6

   Edit all content and menu buttons

   Single admin role covering content, menus, widgets, members

Scope boundary - what the admin is. We configure the existing WordPress + Elementor admin so non-technical committee admins can run the site day-to-day. We do not engineer a bespoke dashboard engine from scratch; that is a separate six-figure project, and the WordPress admin already meets every clause above.

Warranty and rate-card. 6-month development warranty post-deployment covers bugs, layout issues, and small page requests free of charge. After warranty, new pages cost approximately €20/page standard, scaling to €50+/page for complex layouts. ABAI admins can also build new pages themselves via the included training.

3.6 Technical Requirements

1. 1

   Fully mobile responsive

   Latest iPhone, iPad, Samsung S-series + 1280/1440/1920 desktop breakpoints

2. 2

   Page speed (PageSpeed 80+)

   Caching, image optimisation, CDN; Core Web Vitals reported at handover

3. 3

   GDPR (consent, privacy, data management)

   Complianz GDPR Premium

4. 4

   SSL + secure data handling

   HTTPS by default, auto-renewing certificate, HSTS enabled

5. 5

   Bilingual English + Bangla (Unicode)

   Unicode authoring day one; English-first chrome; bn.abai.ie in Phase 2

6. 6

   SEO best practices

   On-page hygiene only - this is NOT an SEO ranking engagement. Launch covers metadata, sitemap, schema, internal linking, alt text, canonicals. Ongoing SEO (content, backlinks, keyword ranking) is a separate monthly service and is explicitly out of scope.

7. 7

   Accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA recommended)

   Best-effort WCAG 2.1 AA at build; formal third-party certification audit out of scope

8. 8

   Reliable hosting (99.9% uptime)

   Reputable managed host with a high-99s track record

Scope boundary - performance and uptime realism. A blank page scores 100/100 on PageSpeed and is useless; we tune speed against engagement, not a fixed score. SEO ranking is an ongoing monthly engagement (content, backlinks, technical audits) and is out of scope for the build budget; we leave the site rankable. No web host can be contractually guaranteed at 99.9% inside this budget; the uptime SLA sits with the hosting provider, not Riseup Asia. Exhaustive cross-device QA on older or non-flagship handsets is a paid add-on if analytics show meaningful traffic.

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4 Deliverables

Stack. We're building this on WordPress + Elementor Pro because it is the only stack where the €5,000 budget delivers all of Sections 3.1-3.6 and a usable no-code admin for the committee.

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5 Portfolio

Lead engineer Md Alim Ul Karim brings 15 years of US/EU engineering experience, including systems serving 10M+ daily requests across four continents.

Credentials

• B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering, North South University (NSU), Dhaka - Bangladesh's leading private university, ranked in the QS World University Rankings top 900 globally. Graduated in the top 13% of the CSE department.
• Crossover for Work - hired and later promoted at Crossover, which selects from the top 1% of global engineering talent through a multi-stage technical screen.
• Prior senior engineering work for US and EU companies including Crossover and Validata, on systems handling 10M+ daily requests across four continents.

Closest analogue: CAF Patronato Fondi - a member-services and public-assistance organisation with multi-section information architecture and a trust-first tone.

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6 Timeline & Pricing

6.1 Delivery Timeline

6.2 Itemised Cost Breakdown

All work is billed on a transparent hourly rate of €25/hour for senior engineering time. The line-by-line table below shows exactly where the engineering hours go per scope area; the goodwill discount is applied as a single line at the bottom so the committed price stays €5,000.

How to read this table. The committed price is €5,000. The hourly line-items exist so ABAI's committee can see precisely where the engineering time goes - the discount is a single, transparent line at the bottom, not buried inside each item.

What the €5,000 budget covers (and for how long). The €5,000 covers the full build plus three years of website hosting and routine maintenance (security updates, plugin updates, backups, uptime monitoring). After the 3-year term, ABAI either renews maintenance at the then-current rate or takes the site fully in-house - all credentials and ownership already sit with ABAI. SEO ranking work is not part of this budget at any point (see Section 3.6 scope boundary).

6.3 Optional Extended Track & Rate-Card

Third-party costs are paid directly by ABAI to those providers - plugin licences (Elementor Pro, Complianz Premium, events, membership, job-board, activity-log), Stripe processing fees, email-delivery service, Zoom or Google Meet, premium fonts, stock imagery. We do not mark these up. We supply a one-page itemised purchase list at the start of Phase 2 so ABAI's treasurer can buy them in one go.

Payment terms. Payments via Wise in EUR: 50% upfront on signature, 50% within 7 days of final delivery. No additional TAX/VAT charged by Riseup Asia.

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Investment

€5,000

Save 33% - Non-profit Discount

Original project value: 7,500

1. 01
   Month 1

   Discovery, content, architecture

   Requirements lock, plugin shortlist, content inventory, sitemap, roles

2. 02
   Month 2

   Design and core site build

   Homepage, information hub, events structure, reusable Elementor templates

3. 03
   Month 3

   Membership, payments, jobs, education

   Stripe flow, moderated jobs workflow, education structure

4. 04
   Month 4

   Compliance, speed, admin training

   Complianz setup, SEO metadata, caching, device QA, admin walkthroughs

5. 05
   Month 5

   UAT, launch, warranty handover

   ABAI testing, final fixes, go-live, credentials transfer

7 Terms & Conditions

Reasoning - on the cancellation / rejection clause.

The original RFP reserves ABAI's right to "reject any or all proposals without providing reasons" and, by extension, to cancel an agreement at any time. As a delivery partner committing senior engineering hours, plugin licences, and a fixed price below market, Riseup Asia cannot accept an open-ended right of cancellation or silent rejection. A construction firm, a law firm, or a hospital supplier would say the same: once work has started against a signed scope, both sides need predictability.

"ABAI reserves the right to reject any or all proposals at the selection stage; reasons for rejection will be communicated to the bidder in writing within a reasonable period. Once an agreement is signed, either party may terminate only for documented cause (non-performance, breach, or insolvency), with written notice and payment for work completed up to the termination date."

This keeps ABAI's discretion fully intact at the selection stage, keeps the process fair and professional, and protects both sides during delivery.

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8 Before We Start

A handful of questions we need ABAI to answer in the discovery call so we can lock the build plan in week 1:

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1. 01

   Membership tiers

   how many tiers, and what is the annual fee for each?

2. 02

   Honorary upgrade

   what donation threshold qualifies, and is it one-time or cumulative?

3. 03

   Education delivery

   Zoom/Meet embeds for live classes, or a fuller LMS module later?

4. 04

   Jobs posting fee

   what does ABAI want to charge employers per moderated post?

5. 05

   Domain & hosting

   does ABAI already own `abai.ie`, and do you want the bundled 3-year hosting line or your own provider?

6. 06

   DPA signatory

   who at ABAI signs the Data Processing Agreement?

9 Next Steps

If this proposal reflects what ABAI is looking for, the next step is a 30-minute alignment call to confirm scope, tier structure, and the discovery start date. We can sign the agreement and start the same week.

Questions or anything unclear? If any line in this proposal is confusing, ambiguous, or you simply want it explained in plainer terms, please ask. We would rather walk the committee through a clarification call than have any clause read two ways. No question is too small.

Thank you for considering Riseup Asia LLC for this build.