July Wins Recap 🎉 , Seeking Your Public Health Experiences

The most frequent question we're hearing lately is, "When will the government finally make some awards?" Last week brought some positive news with GSA announcing the OASIS+ small business awards—congratulations to the 20 marketing communications firms that secured a spot! However, the NIH PICS III contract remains in limbo, keeping the industry on edge. Meanwhile, we're in the final evaluation stages for significant contracts, including VML's recompete of the $1B+ Marine Corps recruitment advertising program, Stratacomm's recompete of the $250M+ traffic safety program at NHTSA and the $50M+ CBP recruitment program.

That said, in July we saw a number of nice wins:

• BLN24 captured a $15M contract for CMS' spanish language multi-media and education campaign for medicare open enrollment

• Sensis defended their digital media and marketing support contract at Census Bureau valued at $4.3M

• Red Carrot was awarded an 8(a) sole source contract at HUD for media advertisement services valued at $3M

And, earlier this month CMS hosted a pre-solicitation presentation on the upcoming National Education Campaign (NEC) and Outreach IDIQ. Related, we are interested in connecting with firms with the following experience:

• State-level public health campaigns

• Campaigns targeting 65+ audience

• Working with open enrollment / health plans

Please let us know if you have any of these experiences ... would love to better understand your experiences for a few various opportunities we are working towards.