PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT.docx

JOURNAL LAYOUT AND DESIGN - PERFORMANCE WORK STATEMENT

Insider Threat Research Program (ITRP) D/MATH – Scholarly Journal The MIROR Journal

Performance Work Statement

Background: The forthcoming MIROR Journal (MRJ) is a semiannually print journal generating a multidisciplinary dialogue through thought-provoking scholarly articles and essays on the strategic, operational, and organizational resiliency aspects of insider threat. The MRJ mission is to compile perspectives from preeminent thinkers across the government, industry, and academia regarding challenges, impacts, and initiatives for consideration regarding insider threat. The MRJ has a wide distribution reaching academia, the military insider threat and counterintelligence community, key congressional committees, banking and cyber industry leaders, Federal law enforcement, and notable research institutions.

Scope of Work: Services shall include complete graphic design and layout for the print MRJ and online distributed MRJ as a PDF.

Objectives:

The Contractor shall create layouts for complete, Printer-Ready PDF and graphic files for a journal based on the provided table of contents, list of articles, and estimated journal text word count. The Contractor shall include a custom-designed front/back cover, spine, and inside front/back covers. Each issue of the MRJ shall not exceed 155 pages.

The Contractor shall provide the layout and design of the MRJ; layout of Articles, text, author bios, and photos – including Notes pages, Table of Contents, Masthead, Front and Rear Covers, and the development of necessary supporting Tables, Charts, and Graphics.

The Contractor shall provide a complete low-resolution file of the completed MRJ, and individual articles suitable for emailing and online viewing shall also be provided in reader spreads. The MRJ layout shall be created using the Professional Adobe Creative Software suite.

Performance Requirements:

Develop MRJ Layout & Design.

(b) The Contractor shall have an 8-week production schedule after all files assets (text and images) have been provided by the Government.

(c) The Government will supply final content and high-resolution images to a web portal.

(d) The Contractor shall review all artwork for resolution and file quality.

(e) The Contractor shall schedule weekly and as-needed conference calls to update the status and review progress with the Government.

(f) The Contractor shall layout and design MRJ Journal utilizing Adobe Creative Suite comprising InDesign, Illustrator, Layout Covers, Masthead, and Spine with updated info and submit screen -optimized PDF Proof for approval.

· The Contractor shall format a Table of Contents (no page numbers).

· The Contractor shall solve any new design issues that challenge existing page layouts.

· The Contractor shall utilize a web portal for posting artwork and all content to and from the Government.

· The Contractor shall recreate the artwork in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator as needed for tables, graphs, charts, and infographics and create a maximum of 25 basic infographics and tables per issue to support text per authors supplied rendering for the basic MRJ.

· The Contractor shall follow Style Guides for laying out Articles with Titles and Subheadings, Author Bios, Citations, and Author Photos.

· The Contractor shall provide screen-optimized PDF proof files to review and annotate electronically.

· The Contractor shall create individual article PDFs for each article for proofing by authors.

· The Contractor shall provide 3 rounds of content revisions.

· The Contractor shall provide 3 rounds of graphics/layout revisions.

-- Initial layout for approval by editors, the Government, and authors.

-- Second edit round with applied changes.

-- Third round with minor tweaks and ready for print.

· Annotated PDFs will be submitted to the Contractor via the web portal to update the original design layouts.

· Paginate pages to match the Table of Contents.

· Send a complete PDF to the Government for approval.

· Pre-flight of files for Printer.

· The final print-ready files shall be sent to the Government approved printing vendor for printing and bindery.

· Remotely sign off on the technical aspect of the printing proofs.

· Digital, online proofing, as well as physical proofs, shall be available to the Government through commercial Printer as well.

· Review Proofs – digital and physical with the Government and Printer.

· Upload files to the Printer server.

· Print publication complete.

Required Credentials The Contractor’s Creative Designer shall have demonstrable and tangible experience working with industry, government, military, and academia and experience in design and layout with scholarly journals.

Proprietary Data: All material remains the property of the Insider Threat Research Program USMA and the U.S. Government.