Metro-Wide Contracts

Metro has multiple contracts with three quality Public Relations firms: DVL Seigenthaler, MP&F Public Relations, and Calvert Street Group. Below is a summary of this firm’s offerings. Based on the firm’s expertise and your department’s needs, make a selection and briefly document your justification for the selection. Please attach the justification to the PO in iProcurement for retention.

Calvert Street Group (CSG) is a Nashville-headquartered firm with a record of success in stakeholder identification, public outreach, strategic messaging and the development of public support for corporations, trade groups and government agencies. With offices in Nashville, New York, NY, Washington, DC and Bellingham, WA, CSG has spearheaded successful campaigns and initiatives in Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, Georgia, Maryland and across the nation. CSG believes in partnering with our clients to analyze challenges and to develop implementable strategies to build understanding with target publics and support for the client’s efforts. CSG doesn’t just offer ideas, our firm excels at execution and implementation in the field, whether it’s by mail, by phone, through social media or face-to-face.

Founded by Managing Director Darden Copeland in 2009, CSG can provide a team of experienced professionals with decades of experience to help you, including a former Metro Nashville mayoral press secretary, Metro department PIO and communications director for a department of the state of Tennessee. Services include:

• Strategic campaign and message development
• Identification and education of key stakeholder groups
• Coalition building
• Development of white papers and talking points
• Creation of printed collateral as well as videos
• Organization of press conferences, public meetings and town halls
• Media relations and social media strategy
• Data gathering, polling, situational analysis and focus groups
• Consistent, regular progress reports and after-action analysis

Metro has multiple contracts with three quality Public Relations firms: DVL Seigenthaler, MP&F Public Relations, and Calvert Street Group. Below is a summary of this firm’s offerings. Based on the firm’s expertise and your department’s needs, make a selection and briefly document your justification for the selection. Please attach the justification to the PO in iProcurement for retention.

DVL Seigenthaler brings innovation and creativity to Metro’s complex communications challenges. We begin by focusing on your objectives and then collaborate to identify the best strategies and tactics to help achieve results. We plan and execute a program that reaches targeted audiences, is well managed and within budget. Each initiative is customized and can include a range of tools from marketing and advertising, media and community relations, grassroots organizing, digital services and social media.

Our award-winning company includes over 70 communications professionals. A seasoned strategic planning team is bolstered by a comprehensive, in-house creative department with graphic and digital designers and web developers, video producers and production editors.

DVL Seigenthaler is the largest public relations agency in Tennessee. For more than 40 years, we have supported some of Nashville’s most recognized organizations including Nashville Electric Service, Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, Metropolitan Nashville Emergency
(E-911) Board, and many others. See DVLSeigenthaler.com for more information.

DVL Seigenthaler’s capabilities span the communications landscape. We integrate these disciplines as appropriate to accelerate the pace of Metro’s successes:

Public Relations, Marketing Planning/Strategy, Advertising, Broadcast & Video Production, Corporate Communications, Media Relations, Crisis Communications, Issues Management, Internal Communications, Digital Solutions, Event Marketing, Meeting Management, Social Media, Government Relations, Research, Branding, Media Buying & Placement, Creative Services

DVL Seigenthaler is dedicated to diversity and being an inclusive Nashville company. We incorporate key SMWBE-certified partners into our recommended programs when possible.

We would be delighted to work with you and your team to articulate the exceptional work of Metropolitan Government in a way that is fresh, inventive and sincere.

Metro has multiple contracts with three quality Public Relations firms: DVL Seigenthaler, MP&F Public Relations, and Calvert Street Group. Below is a summary of this firm’s offerings. Based on the firm’s expertise and your department’s needs, make a selection and briefly document your justification for the selection. Please attach the justification to the PO in iProcurement for retention.

MP&F Public Relations is Nashville’s largest locally owned full-service public relations and marketing firm. In addition to our staff of skilled communicators, we have teamed with well-respected SBE-certified partners – Ashley Northington of DENOR Brands & Public Relations, Marcela Gómez of Hispanic Marketing Group, Kia Jarmon of MEPR Agency, and Austin Bever and Colin Cooper of That’s Classic Media – in responding to Metro’s request for public relations services on behalf of the Metro departments (RFQ No. 942565).

Jarmon, Northington and Gómez, three of Nashville’s most respected minority communications experts, have deep relationships in the African-American and Latino communities. They are joined on the team by Bever and Cooper, the video duo who created the viral sensation “Welcome to Nashville.”

We have the ability, capacity, skill and experience needed to tackle all public relations and communications services you may need. Advertising, branding, digital marketing, media outreach, research, media buying and production, educational materials development, graphic design, writing, crisis communications, community outreach – our team does it all.

MP&F and our subcontractor team have what it takes to increase awareness of Metro services and key messages among all Nashvillians, whether natives or newcomers. Our team’s goal is to become an extension of your staff by supporting your department in overcoming any challenges you face in communicating to the Nashvillians you serve.

Prime Contractor: MP&F Public Relations
SBE Subcontractors: DENOR Brands & Public Relations, Hispanic Marketing Group, MEPR Agency, That’s Classic Media