Hi,
Further to bid, just to give you some details about us, we are a development outsourcing company iniitally founded in Melbourne, Australia, now largely operating from Beijing and Xiamen, China.
Our unique advantage over other off-shore providers is that we offer a 'native contact' system, whereby all customer contact staff and development team leaders are native English speakers (Mostly Australian or British), so any communication difficulties or language barriers can be eliminated.
We have been operating for some time on projects mostly in the Chinese domestic and Japanese markets but are looking to expand to US and international projects, of which yours sounds an excellent example.
With regards to your specific project, we have relevant experience in terms of having written a number of online social-oriented applications for Japanese and Australian firms, along with of course many more general online applications, including everything from large ERP/CRM systems through to regular small-scale websites.
Most of these are under confidentiality agreements but we may be able to provide sample screenshots once details have been discussed, whilst we cannot provide names, one great example is a certain very large Australian domain name registrar, you should be able to find quite easily through Google.
Obviously we need far more details before agreeing to anything or finalizing but bid is an estimate daily rate for a highly experienced PHP team, we have 2 ready to start work immediately (As early as 2hrs notice is available), of course this is not yet final, we will be able to refine schedules and so on once further details have been discussed.
Please do let us know if you have any queries or are able to provide any more specific information, the project sounds like one we will be able to help with and we have a number of development teams presently awaiting work.
Look forward to hearing from you,
Jay Lynch
Novar Tech