Corporation for Public Broadcasting

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is seeking a consultant to provide guidance on the future of content distribution for public media.

The desired partner will have comprehensive expertise broadcast, broadband and wireless technologies for TV, radio and digital media content distribution.

It will provide ongoing consulting, including analysis, counsel and recommendations pertaining to CPB’s future investments in content and information distribution systems and services.

The contractor will have experience in evaluating technology solutions and distribution methods for efficiency, effectiveness, and adaptability for the future needs of public media organizations and audiences.

CPB may ask its partner “to propose a zero-based approach that will offer a re-imagined public media content distribution system that takes advantage of the latest technologies to be more nimble, agile and extensible, making more efficient use of tax payer investments, and thus better positioning public media’s distribution systems for the future,” according to the RFP.

Proposals are due June 27 at CPB electronic grants management system.

Interested partners must email Maciej Ochman, director, media technology & service strategies, at [email protected] by 3:00 EST on June 23 to get access to CPB’s grants management system.

Read the RFP (PDF).