Hosting of Websites on Europa
General information for development or maintenance of a web-site
The contractor shall ensure that the website is compliant with the Information Provider
Guidelines (IPG) for EUROPA: http://www.ec.europa.eu/ipg
This guide covers all aspects of publishing on the EUROPA site, describing the
relevant editorial, technical and presentation standards in force, as well as providing a
wide range of recommendations based on best practices.
Some of the information on this site is not accessible on-line from outside
Commission premises. This information should not be essential for the purpose of the
present tender but will be sent to the tenderers upon request.
Specific information for development of a web-site
As the website will be hosted on the Europa server of the European Commission as
part of the Environment website (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/index_en.htm), the
contractor should respect the environment template. For instance, the website cannot
contain dynamic pages based on application programming and/or database contents.
Other technologies as Flash, XML or Javascript are accepted.
The contractor will be free to use a web content management system locally but the
web pages are to be delivered to the Commission in static HTML format.
The contractor will develop the website at his premises and infrastructure. The process
of acceptance by DG-ENV is an iterative process that contains at least the following
phases:
• delivery of a version to DG-ENV
• validation by DG-ENV
• emission of validation report by DG-ENV (minimum of 5 working days after
delivery)
• correction by the contractor
Once accepted, DG-ENV will deploy the version onto the Hosting Environment.
Specific information for maintenance of a web-site
The contractor should follow the following rules for the maintenance of the web-site:
• When receiving update requests from DG ENV, the contractor should first ask
validation of the files at his premises
• When validated, the co