–This is being re-listed due to the large amount of bids that would not have met my requirements. Please do not bid unless you can complete this project as required.–
I’m trying to start a price comparison website, focused on the Republic of Ireland insurance market. Initially, I want to focus on Car insurance, and the site will get quotes from numerous Irish based insurance websites when a user submits their details. I’ve initally set it up to get a quote from one site and it’s developed using PHP and CURL. The site will scrape the other insurance sites initally, and when we have a demo site up and running, I’m going to contact the individual companies to give us access to any available APIs or Web Services. Once the site is up and running, I will then be looking for further services to develop price comparison sections for health, motor bike, home, travel, etc.
I’m a qualified software engineer myself, and planned to complete the website myself, but have had limited time to focus on it technically. The site has been started using PHP and CURL. Check out the draft version at: http://www.pricearound.ie/motor and select a DOB more than 20 years ago, tick the check box and click submit.
There are numerous web-sites that I want to integrate to. Some are listed below. You should be able to integrate to all of these sites.
https://services.hibernian.ie/direct/product/car.htm?_flowId=motor-flow&_flowExecutionKey=e1s1
http://quoteengine.bestquote.ie/motor1.aspx
https://www.insure.ie/car_insurance?new_quote=y&type=private
http://www.123.ie/Motor/quote/get/quote.123?conversationId=43204
https://qquote.quoteexchange.co.uk/qinx.php
http://www.nononsense.ie/
http://www.fbd.ie/
https://car-insurance-quote.aaireland.ie/AA/maindetails.aspx
https://secure.axa.ie/CarInsurance.aspx?busID=2&termsAndConditionsAgreed=true
I have a start page set-up, but this will have to be enhanced to catch more required fields from a user. A user then fills in the form, ticks the terms & assumptions check-box and presses the submit button. In the background, the site goes off and queries each site in real-time to retreive an insurance quote. It’s very important to note that this has to be done in REAL-TIME, a batch or data mining program will not suffice. It’s currently using PHP & CURL, but you may call web-services, AJAX, etc. However, java code cannot be executed on my web server.
I want to keep the user input as small as possible, so each site will probabley require a certain amount of data transformation! For example – some sites expect an age, others expect a date of birth. All website quotes will then be provided to the user in a list format with the company name, logo and quote. If an insurance companies site returns more tha one price, all quotes should be displayed (ie. 3rd Party, 3rd Party F&T and Fully Comp.) Total transaction time may take up to 20-30 seconds. Car Types, Locations, etc will have to be developed and displayed at the front end also. I can provide a list or database insert scripts of these.
Similar existing UK based sites are www.confused.com, www.gocompare.com, etc.
If this is successful, they may be a lot of additional development coming on the horizon.
Just to clarify one issue regarding the project. A lot of people are offering to do scans of the websites, and save them to a database via cron. THIS WILL NOT WORK!
As I mentioned, the winning programmer may also be asked to add further sites in later projects, as-well aas develop quote pages for Home, Bike, Health insurance.
Only serious bids will be entertained, which are accompanied by a detailed explanation of how this is going to be implemented.
All bids must be fixed price, and you should be able to start within the next couple of weeks.
Thanks.
