Specifications include, but are not limited to: Fayetteville State University hosts two commencement exercises within the academic year. One event is held in May and the latter in December. This year, FSU will host a Winter Commencement on Friday, December 15, 2023, for up to 400 graduates, faculty, staff, and guests, in the Capel Arena on the campus. The services we will need to conduct this event will be to hire an event/production company who will provide all of the audio/visual and technology services, as well as a stage, graduate chairs, and microphones/speaker operators. FSU does not have an event staff with the technical skills to produce this event nor does the own this level of audio/visual equipment, stages or the quantity of chairs needed. The intent of this solicitation is to award an agency specific contract to perform these services for the December 15 event. Not to exceed the University’s budgeted funding of $60,000.