ON CALL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH CONSULTING SERVICES

The City of Banning (“City”) is seeking to establish an on-call vendor list or panel of qualified entities or individuals (“Companies”) to provide 'Project Title . The City anticipates selecting one or more firms to perform the services over a time period of five (5) years. Proposals are requested from Companies that have demonstrated the ability to perform the tasks identified in this Request for Proposal (“RFP”). The Consulting firm shall assist the City with achieving public outreach goals and have experience and proven successes with projects such as creating unique brand identities, memorable messaging, communication through multimedia formats, crisis communications, and Proposition 218 informational campaigns. Due to the as-needed nature of the work, no work is guaranteed regardless of selection. Nothing in this RFP requires the City of Banning to select a sole source consultant for any project and services or guarantees a certain amount of work to any consultant on the shortlist. The scope of work will vary and will be requested on a task-order basis as the need arises. The City of Banning is a General Law City. As such, some projects and services will be subject to competitive proposals from the selected shortlist in accordance with the City of Banning's purchasing policy for the duration of this RFQ. The City of Banning, at its own discretion and in compliance with the funding sources, will either select consultants from the shortlist or publish a project-specific RFP open to all.