The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) is announcing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partners with a proposal for publishing the Bay Journal, a monthly periodical published to inform the public
about issues and events that affect the Chesapeake Bay.
The Bay Journal is published monthly with the exception of mid-summer and mid-winter, for a total of issues each year.
It is distributed free of charge, has a circulation of approximately 25,000, and is a member of the Associated Press.
Content is also distributed through an electronic news service and posted to the Bay Journal website (www.bayjournal.com) with timely submissions of news, information and feature stories produced during the time period between the hard copy publications.
This RFP is seeking cost-effective proposals from eligible applicants to provide the content for publication of the Bay Journal as well as the electronic news service and Bay Journal website to raise public awareness of issues surrounding the Chesapeake Bay.