[BNM] Tender for modular IT system for community food projects

[Joe Aliferis]

Hi Karen

I read this brief with interest.

My company has worked with non-corporate organisations in the past.

CSV Community Partners
Primary Care Foundation
GPnetworks

We have a history of developing extensible modular web applications, 
using Open Source technology and we have a lot of experience in 
developing multi-user system.

We also tend to develop in collaboration with others, especially 
designers, since we have no in-house design skills.

I would be interested in finding out more about the scope and 
specification of the application you envisage, perhaps helping you to 
define it.

We are based in Brighton. If you would like to meet up for a chat, let 
me know.

Regards

Joe Aliferis
Director
Newforms.co.uk ltd
01273 771212


> A tender opportunity from the food and farming charity Sustain (please
> contact them direct):
>
> Tender for modular IT system for community food projects
>
> Sustain (the alliance for better food and farming) are seeking an IT
> developer to offer practical help to make smaller-scale food trading
> organisations become more economically viable and easier to manage. We want
> to create a modular web-based IT system which would enable community food
> projects and social enterprises to streamline the operation of diverse
> activities, and adaptable (as far as possible) to different local
> situations. We envisage that the core of this system would be:
>
> Purchasing - allowing supplier self-management stock control; delivery notes
> and customer order management.
> Automatic invoicing and accounting - including interface with the accounts
> software SAGE.
> Production planning - the ability to run forecasting and purchasing analysis
> and create, for example, recipes based on the availability of produce.
>
> We are looking for an IT developer who is sympathetic to the aims and style
> of working of the voluntary sector, ideally with experience of working with
> community groups and interested in developing such a modular system. We
> would like the successful contractor to work collaboratively with us and our
> partners to help develop a system that is compatible with the needs,
> ambitions, affordability and accessibility considerations of small-scale
> community food enterprises. We suggest the system might be developed in a
> well-supported web-development framework, ideally open source, but we are
> open to suggestions.
>
> This project is funded by the Big Lottery and is part of the Making Local
> Food Work programme. Contact Clare Horrell for the tender document. Please
> send your tender by 17th April, 2009 to: Clare Horrell, Sustain: The
> alliance for better food and farming, preferably by email (
> <mailto:clare at sustainweb.org> clare at sustainweb.org), or  by post to:
> Sustain, 94 White Lion Street, London N1 9PF.
>
> For more details of Sustain, see:  <http://www.sustainweb.org>
> www.sustainweb.org; for more details of the types of community projects this
> work will support, see:  <http://www.localactiononfood.org>
> www.localactiononfood.org.
>
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