LIRNEasia is inviting proposals from qualified web development firms, service providers and consortia of individual professionals to design, develop and deploy a public-facing website for the Asia AI4D Observatory. The website is intended to serve as a searchable, interactive regional knowledge repository and engagement platform, making evidence and resources on responsible artificial intelligence easy to discover, use and share. Further details are available in the full RFP.
The full RFP can be accessed here.
Proposals must be submitted to LIRNEasia by 5:00 PM IST on 29 September 2026
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Mahima Baduwasam
To the Procurement Team,
I am Mahima, lead developer at Atelier Web. Institutional knowledge repositories require accessible, lightweight front-end architecture to ensure fast load speeds across varying regional networks. I build 100% semantic, mobile-first platforms with zero bloated page builders. Before you finalize your vendor selection, I would be glad to construct a free, live 1-page sample preview of the observatory’s interface on Netlify to demonstrate my code quality and load speeds.
Portfolio: https://atelierweblk.netlify.app/
Mc-Jo Maranan
Hello LIRNEasia team,
Thank you for sharing this opportunity. We have submitted our proposal for the Asia AI4D Observatory website in your email, and our prototype is available here: https://ai4d-observatory.onrender.com/
Please note that the prototype runs on free-tier hosting, so the first visit may take a little while to load while the server starts up. After that it should run normally.
You can see my portfolio in here: https://softwareengineerjoe.netlify.app/
If you would like to discuss our proposal further, I would be glad to connect by email or on WhatsApp at +63 9603 401 492.
Kind regards,
Joe
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