Specifications include, but are not limited to: 2.1 Have sufficient design staff to complete up to 150 projects annually and meet tight production deadlines on multiple projects. 2.2 Have a minimum of one 4-hour meeting on campus per week for meeting with University Marketing representatives and its clients. These meetings vary in scope and topics, from strategic and creative consultation to timeline development, photography review, layout development, copy review, and other steps of the design and production process. ISU will not pay for clients travel expenses to attend these meetings. 2.3 Provide a dedicated account coordinator to ISUs account that will attend all Iowa State meetings, to provide the greatest efficiencies in time and expense. 2.4 Provide a lead representative to attend all meetings that has design skills and is empowered to make decisions that will affect scheduling of multiple designers. Additionally, this lead representative must be able to provide cost estimates, scheduling, and deadline information. 2.5 Have in place a project management database and budgeting system that allows for tracking of projects on a weekly basis and daily to-date expense information. 2.6 Provide the Office of University Marketing a weekly status report on each project.
