Shiply.com type work

**As you can easily be seen, [login to view URL] seems to be a ruthless copy and clone of [login to view URL], which was set up 5 years earlier.? ** ** ** **Asking for a clone of [login to view URL], itself mostly cloned, bizzarely seems to violate their terms and conditions.? **Therefore we are not going to ask for this.**? ** ** ** ? Please bid for a transportation market place site with reverse bidding functionality.? Serious bidders must have a good look at the "find along a route" function under "find/search shipments" button, as this is the main bespoke non-standard functionality that needs to be present, if possible in improved fashion. ? This is a fairly skilled mashup. It would require expert knowledge of the Google Maps API (or equivalent mapping supplier if done with another map set). 2.- The site will also have a classified ads section that can be displayed along with the other results in the same way as is done by ebay, showing auction items side by side with classified items. 3.-A facility for screen-scraping at least 15 shipping providers and extracting shipping quotes from them to be displayed in a comparison table. ## Deliverables The main parts of course are all the classification and functionality for listing an item to be shipped on one hand, and the main tools for finding shipments, ie, local with radius, region to region, along a route function with google maps/bing maps. Shipping company directories Directories, information pages, feedback system, etc, plus the backend, CRM, fee collecting system, conflict resolution and a facility for collecting transport statistics. 2.- Additional: The site will also have a classified ads section that can be displayed along with the other results in the same way as is done by ebay, showing auction items side by side with classified items. 3.-Additional: A facility for screen-scraping at least 15 shipping providers and an api connection ? (where possible) to collect shipping quotes from major shippers such as FEDEX, DHL, UPS and compare them side by side (like a comparison engine, eg [login to view URL]) (Shippers here would input origin, destination, time window, and dimensions/weight of item to be shipped - input of origin / destination ato be enabled via pulldown menus ? and also through clicks on the map interface). Please provide details the languages you propose for coding the site along with the architecture. Good knowledge of mapping applications or GIS would be a great advantage, as well as the ability to make the ? application compatible and ready for taking advantage of cloud computing environments. There are many other features planned in the pipeline for this site and the cloned facility is just the starting point to get going. ? The bidder who is awared the job can expect ongoing work if the relation is satisfactory. Cloud computing is suggested due to the computer intensive requirements for future services: calculation of optimum routes for delivering multiple shipments, calculation of how new shipments that are taken on by the operator, affect extra mileage and estimated times of arrival, etc.