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Open RFPs — McCall Area Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau

The McCall Area Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau is currently accepting responses to three Requests for Proposals:

Agency of Record
Professional services including, but not limited to, year-round marketing strategy, creative production, media placement, campaign management, email & content marketing, and visual asset coordination. Ability to integrate marketing and advertising with public relations efforts and website content either in-house or alongside other contracted vendors.

Website Rebuild
Professional services including, but not limited to, creative development, design, user experience, SEO, and programming associated with a rebuild and reorganization of visitmccall.org.

Public Relations
Professional services including, but not limited to, media database subscription, pitching, media networking, building journalist database, content creation, press release creation, and soliciting journalists for site visits.

The timeline for the process, according to the Chamber, looks like this:

Timeline:

  • RFP Released: March 2, 2026
  • Deadline for Receipt of Written Inquiries: March 13, 2026
  • Written Responses Distributed: March 20, 2026
  • Proposal Due Date: March 27, 2026
  • Evaluation Committee Meeting: Week of April 6, 2026
  • Interviews (if deemed necessary): Week of April 13, 2026
  • Contract Awarded: April 28, 2026

Full details about each of the three RFPs can be found on the Visit McCall website.

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In Play: Idaho Department of Commerce

The Idaho Department of Commerce is currently soliciting responses for two RFPs — one for Marketing Services and another for Public Relations.

Both are two year contracts, with the option to renew and extend up to a total of six years.

The Public Relations RFP response is due by October 1st, and the Marketing Services RFP is due by October 7th.

The Idaho Department of Commerce has set up a site to provide background information to potential bidders here: https://commerce.idaho.gov/rfp/

Also, a notable “unique consideration” found in the Marketing Services RFP:

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) and the Department of Parks and Recreation (IDPR) anticipate using this resulting contract. Anticipated annual usage by both agencies is approximately four (4) combined projects, governed by Project Service Orders (PSOs). These projects are generally education and awareness campaigns intended to be proactive about issues, promote new service offerings, and inform scheduled maintenance that will affect visitors, etc.

Good luck to those participating.

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In Play: Idaho Lottery Creative Services

Idaho Lottery Logo

The Idaho Lottery Commission has issued a “Request for Proposal for bids from responsible, responsive, and experienced advertising and marketing firms interested in providing advertising creative services,” according to a recent press release.

Details of the RFP are available on the Idaho Lottery’s website.

Respondents have until 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time on Friday, April 12, 2024 to provide the Idaho Lottery with written proposal submissions.

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Reunited

And then there was one.

Following up on the previous post about the Idaho Lottery RFP (that proved to be a bit of unintentional foreshadowing), we recently found that CLM shared the news that they were selected to handle the Idaho Lottery’s creative services:

This marks the first time in almost a decade that creative, strategy, and media will all be under the umbrella of a single agency, if memory serves.

Congratulations to CLM on the win.

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Who will the next Lottery winner be?

Back in March, the Idaho Lottery issued a Creative Services Request for Proposal. Not unusual, given that it’s a state agency, and the RFP calendar and process is pretty cyclical.

The question of who will be selected to provide creatives services for the Lottery is still to be determined. But we know one agency it won’t be.

Yesterday, incumbent shop Mitchell Palmer shared a post and video on their LinkedIn page wishing their friends at the Idaho Lottery success in finding their next creative partner.

For background and context, Mitchell + Palmer was awarded the creative portion of the Lottery’s work in 2015, following a similar RFP process.

The new creative services contract is scheduled to go into effect on July 1, 2021, according to the proposed timeline in the Idaho Lottery’s RFP. In 2012, the Lottery first issued separate contracts for creative and media. CLM has held the media portion of the contract since then, and added strategy in more recent years.