Recent changes
Wednesday November 04 2026
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Tender template: exit and data return clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text for the end of a CMS contract - exit plan, complete data return in open formats, source and documentation hand-over, transition support, secure credential hand-over and deletion - with the Exponential export…
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Tender template: hosting and data location clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text for where and how an Exponential site is hosted - data and backup locations, sub-processors, environments, backups and restore tests, access to the administration, customer access to its own data - with…
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Tender template: intellectual property of custom work clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text for the rights to custom extensions, designs, integrations and documentation paid for under a CMS contract, written to fit the GPL that Exponential extensions inherit, with options to publish the work for…
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Tender template: multilingual clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text for delivering an Exponential site in several official or community languages - languages and scripts, right-to-left support, language addresses, administration languages, translation workflow, encoding and…
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Tender template: open source license and source availability clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text requiring an open source license for the delivered system, delivery of the complete source in a version control repository, a list of components and licenses, and freedom to have the system maintained by…
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Tender template: privacy and data processing clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text for the privacy obligations of a CMS contract and the points a data processing agreement must cover - processing on instructions, sub-processors, locations, minimization settings, data subject requests…
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RFP outline: a tender skeleton for a public-sector CMS Updated Markdown page
A complete skeleton for a request for proposals (RFP) for a web content management system and its services, section by section, with what goes in each and which clause templates and requirement pages fill it.
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Tender template: security clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text for the security obligations of a CMS contract - secure configuration delivered and documented, sign-in protections, logging, access for the supplier, security testing and incident notification - with blanks…
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Tender template: service levels clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text for service levels of an Exponential site - availability, support response by severity, maintenance windows, recovery, security updates, measurement, reporting and remedies - with every figure left blank for…
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Tender template: support and maintenance clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text for support and maintenance of an Exponential site - scope, channels, upgrades within the maintained line, escalation to the upstream project, warranty on custom work, knowledge transfer and reporting - with…
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Tender template: training clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text for training editors, administrators and technical staff of a public body on Exponential - roles, courses, materials, accessibility of training, train-the-trainer and evaluation - built on the free trainer…
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Tender template: vulnerability disclosure and patching clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text that obliges a supplier to watch for, test and apply security releases of Exponential, PHP, the database and the operating system within agreed times, to handle reports, and to keep the site on supported…
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Tender template: warranty of no lock-in clause Updated Markdown page
Clause text in which a supplier warrants that the delivered Exponential site creates no technical, contractual or commercial lock-in - no closed components, no proprietary formats, no exclusive access, no exit fees…
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Total cost of ownership of an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
The index of the total cost of ownership section - how to build a TCO model for a website or intranet on Exponential, the cost categories, license, hosting, staff, training, support and upgrade costs, on-premise versus…
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Cost categories for an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
A catalog of the cost categories of owning a website or intranet on Exponential - software, implementation, infrastructure, operations, people, quality, compliance and exit - with what drives each cost and which page of…
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Estimating hosting costs for an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
The factors that decide the hosting cost of an Exponential site - hosting model, engine, database, search, storage, backups, availability and environments - with the sizing facts the repository states and a method to…
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License costs - what the GPL means for your budget Updated Markdown page
What a public body pays, and does not pay, for the license of Exponential under the GNU GPL version 2 or later - no license fee, no per-user or per-site charge - and which costs remain, with how to read license and…
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On-premise or cloud hosting for an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
A comparison of running an Exponential site in your own data center, on a private or public cloud, or with a managed host - what each model needs from the software, which costs move where, data location and control, and…
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Staff and skills in the cost of an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
The internal roles a public body needs to run a website or intranet on Exponential - editors, web team, site administrator, operations, security and data protection - the skills each needs, the courses that teach them…
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Support contracts in the cost of an Exponential site Updated Markdown page
The kinds of support available for Exponential (free community help, partner support, paid help from 7x, a supplier's own contract), what each promises as published, how to define the support you need, and how to…