Web developer in Ottawa: government supplier sites with every registration in plain view
Supplier sites for government buyers are my focus as a web developer in Ottawa. The first version holds your services, the contracts you've delivered and a compliance page your bids can point to, and I build it from Kolkata, India.
Overview
What the supplier page holds
The supplier page opens with what you supply, then the capacity behind it.
Past delivery comes last. Where a client has agreed to be named, I name them; where they haven't, I describe the department or sector and what was delivered.
A practice or trade selling only to households gets a shorter site, with the service, the area and a way to book on the first screen.
What goes on the compliance page
Every item gets an entry of its own, with its number, who issued it and the date it runs to.
- 01
Registrations. Your business number and each supplier registration a bid asks for, written exactly as your bids give them.
- 02
Certifications. One heading per certificate, with the body that awarded it.
- 03
Insurance. The type of policy and its limit, so a buyer can set it against what the contract asks for.
- 04
Capacity. Figures you're comfortable defending, such as staff on the contract or units a month.
What a scope from me looks like
The supplier site on paper
The compliance page is built first, and it's what the other pages link to.
Included
- A written scope: every page and feature as its own line, agreed before work starts
- Design to build, reviewed on a staging URL that stays open the whole project
- Mobile first — checked on a real phone
- Domain, hosting and every account created in your name from day one
- A compliance page, with each registration and certificate under its own heading
- Basic on-page SEO: titles, descriptions, headings, sitemap, Search Console connected
- A runbook at handover: how to edit it, what renews and when
Phase two
- French pages, if a contract calls for them, reviewed on staging like the English ones
- A page per past contract, once each client has approved its wording
- Ongoing SEO once the site has traffic to read
- A maintenance plan once the site is live
- Logo and brand design, quoted separately from the build
Not doing
- Guaranteed rankings
- Filing or renewing registrations on your behalf
A past bid's requirements list
The requirements list from a past bid shows me which documents your site has to carry. A photo of it over WhatsApp is enough for me to map each requirement to a place on the site.
What moves the number
The lines that grow a supplier build
Named references grow the job, since they aren't published until each client signs off the wording.
- How many registrations and certificates the compliance page lists
- Past-delivery references described in outline, or named with each client's sign-off
- A downloadable capability statement alongside the web pages
- Search rankings on the current site that the new one should keep
- The total number of pages
Where this comes from
Five named reviews from Canada
The reviews on the project list include five from Canadian clients who chose to be named. They come from a larger body of work: 900+ projects completed since 2017.
I lead each supplier build from Kolkata, India, and the work is delivered online. The team works on your schedule, in your time zone.
Nearby
Montreal for French, Waterloo for handover
Montreal's page deals with sites written in English and French from the start, and Waterloo's with a site that a later team has to inherit and keep running.
FAQ
Before the site goes into a bid
The registration certificate is the document I ask to see first.
Does a government supplier website matter when bids go through a portal?
- A government supplier website still matters with a portal in place, because the portal carries the bid and the website is where the business behind it gets confirmed. I match the legal name, the address and the contact details on the site to the ones in your bid, so both read as one company.
Does an Ottawa site need a French version?
- Whether an Ottawa site needs French depends on the contract and the department, and the contracting authority is the one to confirm it. When it does, you'll get a bilingual website with the French pages built as a full second version, each with its own address, checked on staging the same way as the English.
Can confidential documents go on the site?
- Documents that can't be public, such as a security clearance file or a detailed insurance schedule, stay off the open site. The compliance page says they're available on request, and a short form sends that request straight to you.
Who does the work on an Ottawa supplier site?
- I write the scope and lead the build, and I'm the person you deal with throughout. Three developers, a designer and three SEO specialists in the Kolkata, India office, plus around six people working remotely, are the people I bring onto it. Every account the site depends on is opened in your company's name.
What happens on the site when a certificate renews?
- When a certificate renews, the new number and date replace the old ones, and the runbook shows where to make that change. An expired document comes off the compliance page, so a buyer doesn't see one that's lapsed.
Next step
Is French in any of your contracts?
A French requirement in any contract changes the page count more than anything else, so I'll ask about it before we talk about design. If none of them do, the site is built in English, with French ready to add later.
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