Visit Bellevue, Washington

Bellevue, Washington, is requesting proposals from public relations agencies.

The King County city, located across Lake Washington from Seattle, is the third-largest city in the Seattle metropolitan area, counting a population of about 152,000. It’s known as a major tech hub, with PACCAR, T-Mobile, and Valve currently headquartered there. It is also the city where Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.

Visit Bellevue, the destination management organization for the city, is looking for a PR agency that can build awareness of Bellevue and position it as a premier visitor destination.

Scope of the work includes: developing a public relations strategy and plan; performing media pitching duties and identifying earned media opportunities within the travel sector; identifying and creating a strategy and plan for obtaining awareness, visibility and content through targeted influencers and content creators; working with Visit Bellevue staff to develop and execute an annual organized Bellevue familiarization tour for journalists, influencers and creators; providing ongoing content strategy and development support; promoting Visit Bellevue’s owned media assets; providing vision, planning, organization and execution services (with Visit Bellevue staff and partners) for two in-market PR and marketing missions; and providing crisis and emergency management support.

The contract calls for the work to begin in January 2023 and end in December 2024.

Proposals are due by 3:00 p.m. (PT) on October 14 and can be submitted via email to [email protected].

Proposals can also be mailed to the following address:

Visit Bellevue Washington 
Attn: Brad Jones, Executive Director
Level 3 Administration Offices – Meydenbauer Center
11100 NE 6th Street  
Bellevue, WA  98004

All agencies submitting proposals through the mail should include one original proposal (with signatures) as well as three copies with photocopied signatures.

Questions should be directed to Brad Jones, [email protected].

Download the RFP (PDF).