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    "title": "Canada Soccer IT/Digital Infrastructure Current State Assessment and Needs Analysis",
    "modified_at": "2026-05-04 19:07:55",
    "published_at": "2017-03-22 22:00:00",
    "url": "https://news.canadasoccer.com/canada-soccer-it-digital-infrastructure-current-state-assessment-and-needs-analysis",
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    "body": "<p>Canada Soccer IT/Digital Infrastructure Current State Assessment and Needs Analysis</p><p>Canada Soccer is currently seeking a consultant to undertake an analysis of our information technology and digital infrastructure.</p><p><strong>Deliverable</strong>: Present a current-state assessment and produce a 5-year roadmap for an integrated solution covering all aspects of our business operations including staffing and SLA recommendations.</p><p><strong>Scope of work</strong>: VOIP/VPN, housed and cloud and email server administration, intranet, finance and accounting solutions, warehouse, learning, video and digital asset management leveraged through the development of web hosted application solution culminating in a website re-development for all stakeholders.</p><p><strong>Background</strong>: Canada Soccer is in a transformational period. With a renewed focus on improving the technical aspects of our operations, we will begin by assessing our ability to serve our stakeholders through state-of-the-art delivery methods for services. At the same time, we must consider the implications to our day-to-day solutions on the IT and digital side of business and assess whether a bundled or a la carte system of infrastructure is best all the while cognizant that integrations between the solutions is a must.</p><p><strong>Locations</strong>: Ottawa (head office), Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver</p><p><strong>Project Overview</strong>:</p><p>The consultant will be required to:</p><ul class=\"release-content-list release-content-list--bulleted release-content-list--align-inherit\"><li><span>Recommend a sustainable centralised management approach that combines the needs of the organisation and identifies the IT pathway, architecture, and structure including server hosting maintenance and 24/7 support;</span></li><li><span>Recommend best practices to better leverage existing hardware/software platforms currently in use; &middot; Review and establish what existing platforms are currently in use, including present contract timelines and migration strategies;</span></li><li><span>Recommend potential upgrades and/or replacement systems where necessary based upon the operational requirements of the organization as well as establish a process of platform redundancy elimination; and</span></li><li><span>Establish a framework of the policies, procedures and training model required for the transformation to succeed.</span></li></ul><p><strong>Operational Requirements</strong>:</p><ul class=\"release-content-list release-content-list--bulleted release-content-list--align-inherit\"><li><span>Solutions should be scalable over the next 5 years to allow the integration of our membership and provide them with a turnkey operation if they wish to pick from the menu of services we provide; and</span></li><li><span>Solutions require recommended Support Level Agreements including 24/7 maintenance and support availability.</span></li></ul><p><strong>Overview of current-state service/infrastructure identified to date</strong>:</p><ul class=\"release-content-list release-content-list--bulleted release-content-list--align-inherit\"><li><span>VOIP IP/VPN for both internal communication, between the head office and our satellite office in Toronto, as well as external communication to our Membership and the public at large;</span></li><li><span>Multiplatform cloud based email solution including data backup and restoration;</span></li><li><span>Migration of existing internal file server/shares to the cloud (i.e. global access, versioning, indexing, security, backup and restoration);</span></li><li><span>Multiplatform online meeting/teleconferencing solution for both team collaboration and committee work;</span></li><li><span>Sage Accounting instance;</span></li><li><span>e-Commerce solution that is scalable to allow for a variety of user permissions for the creation, management, payment and funds distribution adhering to our current accounting codes;</span></li><li><span>Content Management Solution for online management and distribution of organizational information, news, national team profiles and data, preferably open source, integrated with a suite of multi-user, third-party integrations to cover form building, online voting, customer feedback, etc. integrated with person data management solution.</span></li><li><span>Statistical Data Management Solution to track the player/coach/match official/ event data from our National Team and Development streams for web presentation and posterity;</span></li><li><span>Person Data Management Solution integrated with third party e-mail marketing solution to track person data and provide a 360 view of our relationship with all stakeholders, hosted in Canada;</span></li><li><span>Player Registration and Movement solution integrated with a global player, coach and referee database;</span></li><li><span>Digital Asset Management Solution for hosting and sharing video and photo assets with internal and external stakeholders;</span></li><li><span>Video Content Management Solution for serving and archiving video (including live streams) to various platforms including web, mobile and set top platforms and applications;</span></li><li><span>Learning Management Solution to deliver coach and referee education components integrated with a variety of databases both internal and external integrated with other learning modules and the national certification body;</span></li><li><span>Web Analytics Suite to track online engagement deployed on all Canada Soccer web platforms and various external platforms (i.e. Ticketmaster, Magento webstore, etc.);</span></li><li><span>Media Monitoring Service agreement for mainstream media and social media monitoring and reporting; and</span></li><li><span>National teams&rsquo; athlete development and progress tracking digital platform.</span></li></ul><hr /><p>Proposals should be forwarded to Joe Guest, Deputy General Secretary, Canada Soccer, ( <a href=\"mailto:jguest@canadasoccer.com?subject=IT%2FDigital%20RFP\">jguest@canadasoccer.com</a>) and should include details of previous project summaries and an overview of the project staff with competencies.</p><p><strong>Proposals must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. ET 31 March 2017</strong></p><p>The initial assessment is required to be complete no later than 12 May 2017 with the recommendations presented on a timeline to be agreed at program launch.</p><div class=\"release-content-contact\" id=\"contact-fed0ac05-5fac-48ab-bea5-57876edb5ce9\">\n    \n    <div class=\"release-content-contact__details\">\n        <strong class=\"release-content-contact__name\">Paulo Senra</strong>\n        <em class=\"release-content-contact__description\">Chief Communications &amp; Content Officer | Chef des communications et du contenu, Canada Soccer</em>\n        <ul class=\"release-content-contact__details-list\"><li class=\"release-content-contact__details-list-item\"><a href=\"mailto:psenra@canadasoccer.com\"  class=\"release-content-contact__details-list-item-link\" title=\"psenra@canadasoccer.com\"><svg class=\"icon icon-paper-plane release-content-contact__details-list-item-icon\">\n                <use xlink:href=\"#icon-paper-plane\"></use>\n            </svg>psenra@canadasoccer.com</a></li>\n<li class=\"release-content-contact__details-list-item\"><a href=\"tel:(416)&nbsp;882-7919\"  class=\"release-content-contact__details-list-item-link\" title=\"(416)&nbsp;882-7919\"><svg class=\"icon icon-mobile release-content-contact__details-list-item-icon\">\n                <use xlink:href=\"#icon-mobile\"></use>\n            </svg>(416)&nbsp;882-7919</a></li></ul>\n    </div>\n</div>",
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