Communications Consulting Services

The buyer requires a qualified onshore communications firm to support and facilitate the community engagement component of its upcoming strategic planning process. The selected vendor must develop and execute a comprehensive engagement plan to involve the full agency community. Required scope includes conducting 20 to 30 small-group, 90-minute in-person focus group interviews and individual key stakeholder interviews, while maintaining flexibility for weekday, evening, and weekend scheduling. The vendor must maintain verbatim recordings of focus groups and detailed summaries or transcripts of individual interviews. The vendor must synthesize and analyze findings regarding major themes for the steering committee. All collected data, transcripts, and recordings remain the buyer's property. The buyer restricts eligibility to onshore US organizations and specifies offsite performance. Vendors must submit questions no later than September 23, 2026. The buyer accepts digital responses via email or online and requests proposal pricing as no specific budget is listed.