Specifications include, but are not limited to: With this Request for Proposal (RFP), we are seeking to educate the Tulsa public about Refuse and Recycling services. Tulsa Authority for Recovery of Energy (TARE) commissioned the R. W. Beck Study, completed in 2008, as a means of determining possible service changes and costs for the future. The current service contract with the collection and disposal provider will expire on June 30, 2012. Prior to the expiration date, a new service provider must be selected, and must be ready to assume city-wide refuse pickup on Monday, July 2, 2012. With this Request for Proposal (RFP), we are searching for a consultant who will advise the TARE board members, Solid Waste Services staff and Communications Department staff on a the creation of a comprehensive public information and outreach program that outlines short-term and long-term strategies for communications targeting specific audiences, and create designing collateral materials, using our City of Tulsa in-house graphics designer as well as their own resources or vendor resources, to support the Communications Department and TARE in their roles to: host public meetings, inform all stakeholders, including elected officials, media and residential customers of changes and options within the household collection and disposal system, and develop a measured approach to creating and distributing collateral materials, to include written, graphic, visual, and electronic forms of communication. The consultant will work directly with a City of Tulsa media relations and marketing specialist that will be funded by TARE and will dedicate 100 percent of its work effort to the communications support for Solid Waste Services and the TARE board. This specialist will implement portions of the plan, including writing for publications, website and social media, photography for web and social media, work with the consultant, community outreach and speaking engagements to educate customers on all solid waste services offered by the City of Tulsa. The RFP received should reflect participation and collaboration with this individual, who will be hired within two months. The RFP also should take into account that some design and branding work can be completed by the Citys in-house Communications Departments graphics designer, and web content will be posted by City employees using the City of Tulsa website.
