Public Education and Ongoing Engagement Campaign Service

The South Dakota Department of the Military seeks a marketing and communications firm to develop and manage an ongoing statewide public education campaign for the Governor's Resilient Infrastructure Task Force. The contractor must provide strategy, message development, content creation, distribution, audience testing, measurement, and campaign refinement to deliver clear, practical resilience information regarding essential services to citizens, communities, and businesses. Outside the scope are website design, development, hosting, coding, cybersecurity administration, maintenance, and technical support. Bidders must be onshore USA organizations, and performance of the work will be offsite. Offerors must submit proposals digitally via email or online by October 26, 2026, at 5:00 PM Central Time, and all questions must be submitted no later than October 8, 2026. Evaluators will use subjective judgment to assess non-cost criteria, including specialized expertise, capabilities, and technical competence demonstrated by the proposed approach and methodology. Cost proposals will be evaluated independently from technical proposals as part of the overall ranking, though the text does not disclose a specific budget. The contract term is one year.