The Department of Health and Human Services assigned Porter Novelli an integrated campaign for Medicare’s open enrollment program with a budget of $47.7 million, reports PRWeek, which added that the assignment “was the first significant award from a $900 million indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract from the Department of Health and Human Services. Porter has been tasked with communications planning, speech and media preparation, paid and earned media support, media relations, and social media development, among others duties.
“Porter was the first agency to which the department’s Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services assigned a significant task as part of its communications agency IDIQ, according to a federal procurement database and a CMS spokesperson. The $47.7 million budget is for the first year of the contract; CMS has an option to add two years.”
The PRWeek post also stated that The IDIQ, assigned to Porter, Edelman, Ketchum, and Weber Shandwick, has a maximum budget of $900 million through 2025. CMS awarded the contract to the four agencies to provide communications support for Medicare in general, the Medicare Marketplace, education about Medicare fraud, the new Medicare card, and other CMS programs. The original IDIQ pact, signed in 2011, expired at the end of August.”
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