Site owners

Convivial is available through the GovCMS Drupal Services Panel (DSP), on which Morpht has been selected as a supplier. This lets eligible government agencies engage Morpht directly for a build, rather than running an open tender.

Start from a tested foundation rather than a blank site, and make the big decisions early. Confirm whether GovCMS SaaS or PaaS suits your needs before design starts, build accessibility into every stage rather than testing at the end, and set up content ownership and review before launch. Convivial for GovCMS addresses the three most common risks: scope creep, late accessibility problems, and governance gaps. Its theme, components, and content model are already built and tested, so your budget goes on what makes your site different.

A from-scratch build means commissioning a theme, a component library, a content model, and an accessibility pass before content work even starts. Convivial ships with all four already built, so budget and timeline go toward the site's actual purpose rather than its plumbing.

A distribution is a pre-built foundation: content types, components, view modes and accessibility already in place, that a team customises and extends. A custom build starts from zero, so every one of those pieces has to be designed, built and tested from scratch before content and features can begin.

Choose GovCMS SaaS if your site is mainly information-based and you want GovCMS to manage hosting, security, and platform updates. Choose GovCMS PaaS if you need custom modules, integrations with back-end systems, or user logins. Getting this right at the start avoids costly rework. Convivial for GovCMS works on both, so you can start on SaaS and move to PaaS if your needs grow.

Test for accessibility throughout the project, not just before launch. Convivial for GovCMS has been audited against WCAG 2.2 AA and passed, so your site starts from an accessible base. Morpht then checks accessibility on every change. Before go live, every site goes through our go-live checklist, including automated, keyboard, and screen reader testing, broken link checks, and cross-browser testing. All code is peer reviewed, and visual regression tests catch problems before they reach your users. Independent audits can be arranged if your agency requires one.

No. Convivial for GovCMS is open-source Drupal with no proprietary code or licence fees. Any GovCMS supplier can support it, and your agency keeps full ownership of its site and content. This lowers long-term risk and keeps your options open when contracts change.

Build on GovCMS, start from a starter site that already meets accessibility standards, and test against those standards at every stage. GovCMS SaaS hosting has been assessed under the Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP). Convivial for GovCMS adds a theme and components audited against WCAG 2.2 AA, so your site meets the accessibility standard from day one rather than after a remediation phase.

Most federal agencies must follow the Digital Transformation Agency's (DTA) Digital Experience Policy. It includes the Digital Service Standard, Digital Inclusion Standard, Digital Access Standard, and Digital Performance Standard. Sites should also meet WCAG 2.2 AA for accessibility and the Australian Privacy Principles. Morpht designs and tests Convivial for GovCMS sites against each of these, and helps agencies set up the measures they need for DTA reporting.

Yes. Convivial for GovCMS has been audited against WCAG 2.2 AA and passed. Sites built from it inherit that accessible foundation, including skip links, keyboard navigation, consistent heading levels, colour contrast checks, and reduced motion settings. Editors still need to publish accessible content, so the site includes dashboards that flag images missing alt text and pages missing descriptions.

Business-unit content ownership, scheduled content review workflows, and bulk redirect management help distributed teams keep large government sites accurate and accountable as they scale.

Yes. Convivial for GovCMS is built on data minimisation. Its personalisation tool, Convivial Profiler, runs in the visitor's browser rather than building profiles on a server, so your agency can tailor content without creating a new store of personal information. This helps you meet the Australian Privacy Principles, and Morpht documents data flows so your privacy team can assess them.

Convivial uses Apache Solr for enterprise-grade search, supporting facets and autocomplete so users and editors can reliably find the right content as the site grows.

Beyond the initial build, Morpht offers content personalisation, Recommendations as a Service, and AI content augmentation as ongoing DXP services through the panel arrangement, alongside broader UX, design, content and development support.