AOS-2025-001

Project	Media Buying Services for Fraud Awareness Campaign
Project No.	AOS-2025-001
Location	Columbus
Description	This is a Request for Proposal (RFP) by the Auditor of State (AOS). AOS has stressed the need to identify, report and stop the theft of taxpayer dollars in a timely manner. Increasingly, public agencies are being targeted and millions of public dollars are being lost to criminals each year. To assist in slowing this trend, AOS created and distributed a training video required by Ohio House Bill 33 of the 135th General Assembly, amending Ohio Rev. Code § 117.103, for all Ohio public employees to watch. This training program informs public employees how to better recognize and report fraud within their workplaces and the public sector in general.
Proposal	Review the RFP (pdf)
Awarded To	Origo Branding Company Inc.
Status	Bidding for this project is now closed.

Questions & Answers

The inquiry period for this project was Feb. 10–20, 2025

Part Two: Scope of Work, A. Required Services: Will there be research, content, or information provided to the agency for our onboarding process when developing campaign concepts and messaging? What other discovery exercises should be explored?

Yes, there will be a brief onboarding process that should complete the discovery process.

Part Two: Scope of Work, A. Required Services: It mentions campaign connecting on page 8 in the “Part Two: Scope of Work, A. Required Services” section — but not listed in the “Part Four: Specification of Deliverables” section. To confirm, is your team looking for campaign concepts that will determine how the rest of the assets will be designed and created?

We will be looking for some concepts or guidance on content design or creation.

Part Two: Scope of Work, A. Required Services: When creating a webpage/landing page for the campaign, will this online experience be a standalone site? Or do you envision it being a section built out on the AOS website?

We anticipate this being a page that enhances the current “fraud awareness” webpages we have on the AOS website. The media content will be brief, and we hope to have a landing page to answer questions people may have. We expect that the online content will be available and necessary beyond the campaign, so having it as part of our website is favorable.

Part Two: Scope of Work, A. Required Services: When creating the new campaign website, is the vendor able to use our own developers, or will the State dev team be building out our design/content? If the vendor is building out the site, is WordPress a valid CMS and dev language to use?

We expect that our team should be able to work with you and build out content.

Part Five: Submission Requirements and Format, C. Project Approach, Sections i and ii.: When looking at the RFP, could you please describe the difference between “C. Project Approach, Sections i and ii.” and “E. Proposed Statement of Work”?

We expect the statement of work to include specifics in regard to the project approach.

I see RFP AOS-2025-001 has a requirement for bidders to be in good standing in the State of Ohio. My company is based in New Orleans. Am I eligible to submit?

The RFP does not require a vendor to be physically located in Ohio. However, to be considered for the RFP, a vendor must be registered with the Ohio Secretary of State and must be in good standing to transact business in the State of Ohio. The RFP requires each vendor to provide proof of good standing with the State of Ohio in its Proposal.

Additionally, while vendors are not required to have a physical presence in the State of Ohio, vendors who have a physical presence in Ohio will receive five points pursuant to the RFP’s scoring criteria.

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