Hello!
After carefully reading and understanding your requirements, or at least what's been told so far (as you didn't actually provide too many details about the work itself), I'd like say a couple of things:
- since I'm no Perl developer, if this is not a must using Perl, I would like to convert all of the code into PHP; this is already included in my bid, there's no extra cost for it; I'll be using Zend Framework, which I've used for several years and developped + deployed successfully a lot of apps, most of them intranet large web based apps, I can show demos if need be (although most of them are RO language based)
- provided you'd accept my offer to do the code change from Perl to PHP, I would like to find out more about what the existing web service stands for, what's the purpose, who are the customers and what are their needs in respect to using this webservice
- I will give, by contract means if you want so, a 6-12 month of guarantee to my work, free bug fixes included, of course.
- I can provide full support on a long term, I'm not hunting one time or short term projects; I work on a daytime schedule most of the time, available over skype or phone, and available for emergencies during evening or night time if need be (it happens sometimes, I know this)
- I'm legally registered here, so you'll get an invoice, but I'm not collecting nor paying VAT, we are allowed to do this for individuals/freelancers and small companies in my country
ran out of text :(
Dragos