By Greg Hazley
Arkansas’ game and fish commission is reviewing its six-figure advertising and PR pacts with an RFP process through late May, following scrutiny by a state audit which questioned costs.
The commission, which has a $92M overall budget, has been in the local spotlight after a state audit found some contracts for PR and legal services exceeded specified limits, while another PR firm started working before its pact was approved.
Little Rock advertising and PR firm Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods was paid more than $278K over its allotted $300K contract over the past two years, according to the March audit by the Arkansas Division of Legislative Audit first reported May 11 by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
The probe also found that Little Rock PR shop Martin-Wilbourn Partners started billable work on a communications audit late last year a month before the state commission okayed its short-term contract, worth $50K.
The game and fish commission, meanwhile, issued an RFP May 10 for the advertising and PR pacts seeking a “fresh perspective” for the work.
Download the RFP (PDF).
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