jamestown-yorktownThe Williamsburg, Va.-foundation set up to commemorate the 400th anniversary of key events of the Virginia Colony, wants a PR firm to handle the three-year campaign.

The Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation wants a firm to plan, coordinate, implement and administer a PR campaign to build awareness of Virginia's role in the creation of the United States, from the 1607 Virginia Company of London's investment in the Jamestown settlement.

"From a tiny settlement evolved a new nation," reads the RFP, which notes major evens as the creation of the firest representative assembly in the New World, the arrival of the first recorded Africans to British America, the impact of women on the Colony. the first Thanksgiving, and the commerce and entrepreneurism of the Virginia Colony.

A two-year base contract will carry two option years. Proposals are due Aug. 11.

View the RFP (PDF).