Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Minnesota State Lottery (“Lottery”) develops sponsorship agreements throughout the year with organizations, events, and sports teams to create excitement for lottery players, to interest new players and increase the visibility of lottery games. The Lottery encourages and continually seeks new sponsorship agreements to help achieve current Lottery marketing goals. The Minnesota Lottery finds sponsorship opportunities in two ways. First, the Minnesota Lottery marketing staff locates and approaches potential sponsors to negotiate directly. Second, the Minnesota Lottery accepts incoming potential sponsors through this proposal process. Employing both strategies allows the Minnesota Lottery to find the best sponsorship opportunities, including opportunities that are not already known by staff. Both strategies are evaluated using the same criteria.