DuPage

The College of DuPage, a public community college whose main campus is located in the Chicago suburb of Glen Ellyn, Illinois, is looking for a firm that can provide marketing and public relations services.

DuPage needs an agency with experience in arts marketing or performing arts/live entertainment marketing that can provide marketing and public relation services for events hosted by the college’s McAninch Arts Center, which offers more than 200 public performances of plays, concerts, lectures and art exhibits each season.

The MAC houses four performance spaces: the 800-seat Belushi Performance Hall, the 200-seat Playhouse Theatre, the 60-seat Studio Theatre and an outdoor Lakeside Pavilion which features free community events.

Scope of the work includes public relations, advertising, subscription campaigns, social media and web updates for the MAC

Terms of the contract run for three years, subject to the annual review and recommendation of the College of DuPage Board of Trustees as well as a satisfactory negotiation of terms.

Proposals are due by 1 p.m. (CST) on Tuesday, June 16. Proposals should be sent to:

Purchasing Manager
Attn: 2020-R0015A
College of DuPage
IRC Building - Room 1001
425 Fawell Blvd
Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137

All budding agencies should one original of the RFP, as well as a duplicate paper copy and an electronic version on a flash drive.

All envelopes must display the following information: “Proposal Enclosed Request for Proposals (RFP) for Marketing and Public Relations Services for the McAninch Arts Center (MAC), 2020-R0015A Due: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. Central Time Submitted by: (Name of Respondent, Address, Contact Person)”

Download the RFP (PDF).