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Subject:Re: Cost to redesign a company website From:"Ed Wurster" <eawurster -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:01:04 -0500
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> From a vendor, who is a well-established multimedia company, we have
> received an estimate of $10,000 for the website redesign, with an
> additional $8,000 to develop the password-protected portion of the site. I
> especially quesion the $8,000 because I'm thinking that with all the
> websites out there using a standard password setup (which is what we
> want), there must be some ready-made code that could be adapted for our
> company--as opposed to creating the password portion from scratch.
>
> Do you think these costs are reasonable? Thanks for any feedback you can
> give me.
>
Without seeing the entire specification your company put out for bid, it's
impossible to say for sure what's reasonable.
What were the other bids?
The cost for a password-protected portion does seem high, but I don't know
what your company asked of the developer.
If the development company is well-established, then perhaps they are
applying some experience to the quote. For instance, they know this project
will consume the equivalent of one person working for 3 months. I'm just
using that as an example. Experience tells them that your kind of project
requires a web developer for 2 months, but other functions require an
addtional month of time from testers, coordinators, manager, etc.
Your company can compare the quote to what it would take to bring in a web
developer, manage that person and other required resources, and roll out the
site.
What would happen if you wrote a tight spec for this job, attached a $12,000
cap to it, and asked them to sign?
Ed Wurster
http://www.eWurster.com/blog/
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