Hi,
I looked your posting and I am very much interested to work with you ...I am an India based software professional providing a range of IT services and solutions that address the technology needs of your company in a variety of vertical business segments.
If you are going to spend so much money then why should you use a very junky & slow framework ... it would be much better to build a CORE script with Apache Solr support because as you mentioned Search & MAP are the main key points for your website. Airbnb also use Solr.
Lets discuss on Solr.
I have more than 8 years of expertise in Bootstrap, PHP, MySQL, Apache Solr, CouchDB, HTML, CSS, SEO, Smarty, AJAX, Wordpress, jQuery, GoogleMaps, OpenCart, Magento and customized ecommerce based projects as well as most of the payment gateways and many other Open Source Technologies and frameworks, CRON jobs etc.
Key points why you should consider me for your work -
1. First of all, I am working independently as freelancer... so no restrictions on working hours
2. Always discuss the project deeply before start so that the development would be fast and on-time.
3. Timing: I am online 8-10 hours daily from 9:30 AM to 8.00 PM (IST).
4. Prompt reply through Email or Skype, Gtalk.
5. Having a staging server to show the development/updates to client (if required).
6. Having a high speed internet
7. Development options : per hour, per week, per month, per project.
Looking forward for an positive response and long term business.
Nan