The Food and Drug Administration unit charged with a broad scope that includes enforcing laws governing, food, drugs, tobacco and other products is on the hunt for an agency to develop a strategic plan for its communications operation.
The Office of Regulatory Affairs, based in Silver Spring, Md., wants an outside firm to assess its existing internal and external communications apparatus, which is composed of 25 staffers, and develop a plan for relations with the media, stakeholders, FDA staffers, and other key audiences.
There is no incumbent and the ORA does not currently have a strategic communications plan.
The ORA’s wide purview – it staffs one-third of the FDA’s 4,400 employees – spans operations, policy, science and criminal enforcement.
“ORA has an enormous volume of information … that must be exchanged comprehensively and timely within the organization and externally,” says an RFP outlining the work. “Development and implementation of a viable strategic communications structure and plan will increase workforce and community/stakeholder awareness of ORA activities, furthering the ORA mission and the commissioner’s initiatives.”
Deadline for proposals is June 11. View the solicitation at fbo.gov.