Just a month into the official work of the ACBDA, big-picture timelines and milestones are coming into focus.
Today, the ACBDA released a progress report and an infographic to show a road map forward -- from winning the bid to host the America’s Cup to the line-up of events to play out in Bermuda during the summer of 2017.
CEO Mike Winfield had the following comments: “We are pleased and excited about the opportunities the America’s Cup will create over the next several years as well as the legacy benefits for many years to come for Bermuda and its people.” An infograph was created for local media outlets and the general public to use as reference source. The graphic can be found at http://www.acbda.bm/about/ Winfield added, “While are still in the beginning stages to engage the wider community in America’s Cup-related activities, we are making progress. Within the next few weeks we will be selecting a public relations and communications team to assist us in the very important task of community engagement and outreach.
We were pleased to have interest from 11 parties and the communications committee ultimately reviewed the 8 proposals submitted by organizations and individual alliances.”
Meantime, ACBDA has made the following progress to date, and more is on the horizon:
ACBDA established - Jan 2015 Board of directors announced - Jan 2015 Issued Public Relations & Communications Partner Request for Proposal (RFP) – Jan 2015 Issued RFP technical software/hardware support for its small office – Jan 2015 Issued RFP for Dockyard Site Preparation Contractors – Feb 2015 Meeting with representative groups such as: Bermuda Economic Development Corporation, Bermuda Tourism Authority, Chamber of Commerce, Ascendant, Representative group of the Bermuda sailing community, St Georges, Corporation of Hamilton, Charter Boat Operators, BEST and related environmental entities, to name but a few Working with Team Oracle and Team Artemis assisting with the design of their bases and advancing the overall design of the event village Assisting ACEA and teams with housing, schools and related relocation issues Preparing initial budgets Discussing overall planning, permitting and environmental issues Finalizing the office set up for the ACBDA and ACEA. ACEA office to open March 2015
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