Positive News Reports

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is procuring services from a vendor to provide production and partnership development, marketing, and promotion of positive stories that highlight families helped by DCF services at the statewide and local level in Leon County. The objective is to raise public awareness for existing prevention services. The selected vendor will be required to leverage television airtime on major broadcast stations, oversee all aspects of research, production, and delivery, and utilize social media channels. The Department has identified Forever Family Inc. as the sole source for this contract, which has an estimated value of $250,000. The justification for the single source acquisition is that Forever Family Inc. is the only vendor that can provide the required television airtime, production oversight, and social media utilization capabilities.

This opportunity is not designated as a set-aside for any specific type of organization. The incumbent vendor, Forever Family Inc., is a nationally recognized media initiative with existing partnerships and airtime commitments from ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX affiliates throughout Florida, North Carolina, and other states, reaching over 50 million viewers annually through more than $75 million in earned media. The contract term is 1 year following award, and the intended single-source procurement decision will be publicly noticed per Florida's procurement regulations.