Mississippi Procurement Portal #3170036935

Publisher for Coastal Mississippi’s print and digital travel guide

Coastal Mississippi is seeking a publisher to create and distribute its flagship regional travel guide in print and digital formats. - Buyer: Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau, doing business as Coastal Mississippi; Director of Marketing. The solicitation is administered through the Mississippi Procurement Technical Assistance Program (MPTAP). - OEMs and vendors: No publisher, manufacturer, or other commercial vendor is named. - Products: - Play Coastal Mississippi Travel Guide, printed edition: at least 48 pages plus a four-page cover. Proposals must offer an 8.5 × 11-inch format and a second format no smaller than 6 × 9 inches. Quantity is to be proposed. - Play Coastal Mississippi Travel Guide, digital edition: responsive, downloadable, hosted or embedded on coastalmississippi.com. No part numbers or quantities are specified. - Services: Develop and fact-check editorial content; provide photography and design; sell and manage advertising; print and distribute the guide; provide print-ready and web-ready files; and host the digital edition with monthly analytics. - Notable requirements: Cover Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson Counties and their 12 cities, including maps and tourism listings. Digital content must have selectable, SEO-indexable text, requested live links and UTM parameters, meet WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility, and remain available through the edition cycle. Production must be at no cost to the Bureau; the proposal must guarantee a royalty per edition at least equal to the production and freight cost of the Bureau’s print allocation. Advertising, content, photography, and final edits require Bureau approval. - Performance basis: Proposals should be based on a 12-month period; contract term and edition cycle are not specified.

Description

Coastal Mississippi is seeking proposals from qualified destination marketing publishers to produce the Play Coastal Mississippi Travel Guide, its flagship consumer publication. The selected publisher will handle design, editorial and copywriting, photography, printing, advertising sales, distribution, and a responsive digital edition hosted on coastalmississippi.com. The publication must be produced at no cost to Coastal Mississippi and include a guaranteed royalty from advertising sales. Proposals are due November 19, 2026, by 12:00 p.m. CST.

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