This Invitation to Bid does not limit the scope of graphic design services Alabama A&M University will need but rather seeks to develop strategic partnership(s) with companies providing these services. Multiple vendors may be awarded the bid via this Invitation to Bid to provide the University options in choosing which vendor to engage per project. Alabama Code 41-16-20 requires that “With the exception of contracts for public works whose competitive bidding requirements are governed exclusively by Title 39, all contracts of whatever nature for labor, services, work, or for the purchase or lease of materials, equipment, supplies, other personal property or other nonprofessional services, involving twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or more, made by or on behalf of any state department, board, bureau, commission, committee, institution, corporation, authority, or office shall, except as otherwise provided in this article, be let by free and open competitive bidding, on sealed bids, to the lowest responsible bidder.” This Invitation to Bid seeks to satisfy this state requirement. Vendors are encouraged to bid in order to be authorized to provide the requested services.