University of Massachsetts Creative Media Request for Responses
The University prefers firms with offices and/or facilities and staff in Massachusetts and/or in other New England states.
The University of Massachusetts (UMass, the University) seeks a variety of creative media production services. These creative services include: 1) Broadcast media for TV/Cable, Radio, Web Video and related media production services; 2) Graphic/print design services, including website graphics, animations, and also copying/printing/ print-to-mail service; 3) Internet web page media design/development which includes Internet web-metric advertising data services. Such services may be required for specific projects or project components or as blanket (on-going services).
Multiple awards will be made and to vendors with similar media services which meet the award criteria. Successful responders to this request will be pre-qualified to offer quotes for project-specific contracts. UMass will solicit quotes from prequalified (awarded vendors) in secondary competitions where the University will identify specific design/media requirements on an on-going basis for the duration of the contract period.
Bidders will be responsible for single components or for entire projects and must provide/deliver such media as instructed by the University. Information about UMass may be found on-line at www.massachusetts.edu.
The award period will be for three years beginning April 15, 2009 with an option to renew the agreement for two additional one-year periods.
Bidders must respond to this request with demonstrated experience and excellence in providing high quality/high impact designs and productions for government and education for the past five years. Bidders must reference specific ad productions and costs for which they where wholly responsible. With their submissions, they must include an example each of media with high, medium and low cost and where permissible, reference the customer by name, but at least by type of organization.
The method of work engagement shall begin with UMass requests for quotes from pre-qualified (awarded) vendors for each media component or project throughout the three-year period. A UMass media production specification may include collaborative development of a project plan/scope of services for each production project or component and such collaboration may be obtained from other similar pre-qualified vendors.
The University reserves the right to utilize existing contracts including contractors and sub-contractors under various agreements via the University and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The awarded contractor must agree to the terms and conditions of the University Contract for Services (see Appendix A).
Awards in order of priority will be based on the demonstrated extent to which each vendor can provide the desired quality and scope of services required (See Section A), the comparative cost or best value indicated in cost data provided by bidders in their response, and experience in providing media and creative services to government and education organizations.
Proposals must be submitted by email only to [email protected] no later than Tuesday March 31, 2009 and according the instructions for bid response requirements (see Section A 7-14).
