Tender-19510 – 2024 Direct-to-Production Services VOR

Description

The Direct-to-Production Services VOR provides creative and production services for paid/unpaid media channels where the client wishes to procure creative and/or production services directly from the vendor (e.g., broadcast TV/radio production, video production, raw video footage editing, video accessibility remediation, live event video and live streaming-event facilitation, animation, motion graphics, audio production, photography, copy/script writing). The term of this arrangement is 4 years. 

For more information about this VOR, please visit the Direct-to-Production Services VOR page on the InsideOPS website(internal). 

Policy and Procedures 

The Advertising & Communications Services Procurement Branch (ACSPB) of Supply Ontario is designated as a Mandatory Central Common Service for the procurement of creative communications services like advertising, public relations, graphic design, production, media planning and buying, etc.  
 
The ACSPB ensures that ministries and applicable government agencies acquire these services in a manner that is fair, open, transparent, geographically neutral, accessible to qualified vendors and drives value for money. 
 
ACSPB creative communications procurements are governed by the Procurement Directive on Advertising, Public and Media Relations and Creative Communications Services (Revised May 1, 2019), not the OPS Procurement Directive (though the two are aligned in many places). The Advertising Procurement Directive applies to:  

• all ministries  
• all advisory, adjudicative, and regulatory agencies, as classified under the Agency Establishment and Accountability Directive 
• Other classified agencies, if required by their reporting ministry (the Procurement Directive on Advertising, Public and Media Relations and Creative Communications Services will be listed in an agency’s Memorandum of Understanding with their ministry, if they need to follow this Directive)

Qualified Vendors