Specifications include, but are not limited to: Texas Woman’s University is seeking an event planning service to support the planning and management of a two-day early literacy institute for K-6 educators in cooperation with Reading Recovery and the Department of Literacy and Learning. The event will be held at a hotel or conference center in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in the fall of 2020. Attendance has ranged from approximately 400-600 people in the last five years. The Institute chair will make programmatic decisions and will work in cooperation with the vendor to set and review the budget, create publicity materials, and determine food/beverage needs. A knowledge of and experience with compliance requirements of purchasing policies and procedures of tax-exempt entities is essential.