Child Support Sticker Calendar Service

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services in Columbus, Ohio, requires a vendor to print, assemble, package, and deliver the 2027 Child Support Calendar. The agency is seeking to produce a high-quality, 40-page calendar that includes coloring contest pages and integrated sticker sheets to support its child support program. The selected vendor must manage all production processes, maintain strict quality control, and coordinate electronic proof approvals before final manufacturing. The scope of work covers pre-press preparation, high-quality CMYK printing with bleeds, saddle-stitch binding, and drilling a one-eighth-inch hanging hole. The final product must measure eleven by seventeen inches, trimmed down to eight and a half by eleven inches. The calendar must feature a one-hundred-pound cover stock for the front cover, inside pages on uncoated eighty-pound text stock, and two eleven-by-seventeen-inch kiss-cut sticker sheets stitched into the center. Bidders must perform all work offsite within the United States. The agency requires the vendor to deliver a print production readiness assessment summarizing verified materials, print specifications, and county-specific quantities. The vendor must package the finished calendars in cartons that do not exceed twenty-five pounds and ship them according to designated county distribution lists. The agency is requesting proposals to determine the budget for this project. Evaluation criteria will focus on the vendor's ability to meet all specified production, material, and distribution requirements. Proposals must demonstrate the capability to deliver digital or physical proofs for state approval, including verification of color, bleed, trimming, and sticker alignment.