I’m an academic and my institution does all such things in house with a real engineering team in the IT department- as well as a UI and visual design team. PIs

I’m an academic and my institution does all such things in house with a real engineering team in the IT department- as well as a UI and visual design team. PIs can also pay them to develop sites for their own labs, etc. This is pretty standard across half a dozen universities I've worked at.