Library of Congress - 2022 Gershwin Prize Production

The Library of Congress (Library) is the world's largest library and the world's largest repository of written and recorded music. The Library's mission is to further engage, inspire, and inform Congress and the American people with a universal and enduring source of knowledge and creativity. As the national library, it is important that it directly reaches the public it serves ensuring that all Americans are connected to the Library of Congress. The Library's vast and universal collections include a wide scope of musical and entertainment collections and capabilities of the Library of Congress, and, as such, it is relevant to the entertainment community and various constituents. More information about the Library can be found on the website www.loc.gov. The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song (Prize) celebrates the work of an artist whose career reflects lifetime achievement in promoting song as a vehicle of musical expression and cultural understanding. The styles in which these works are composed reflect myriad contemporary traditions like rock, jazz, country, pop, blues, folk, and gospel. The recipient-whether composer, singer/songwriter, or interpreter-is recognized for entertaining and informing audiences, for drawing upon the acknowledged foundations of popular song, and for inspiring new generations of performers on their own professional journeys. The selection is made by the Librarian of Congress in consultation with a board that is both credible and broad enough in scope to represent the full spectrum of popular song. Board members may include but need not be limited to scholars, producers, performers, music critics, songwriters, and subject specialists within and outside the Library of Congress. For the purpose of the Prize, the term - popular song refers to a composition, featuring words and music, within any style, that achieves widespread commercial appeal, particularly a work that reaches beyond the traditional confines of the genre in which it was created. More information about the Prize may be found at: https://www.loc.gov/about/awards-and-honors/gershwin-prize/. The Library requires a musical broadcast production company (Contractor) to produce a live musical tribute concert featuring the honoree and artists who have been influenced or inspired by the honoree (the - Concert) celebrating the award of the 13th Gershwin Prize; to videotape the Concert and create a 60-90 minute program therefrom for national television broadcast (the - Program); and to identify and secure a venue for the Concert and secure a broadcaster for the Program that are acceptable to the Library. Overall, the quality of the Program must meet the industry standard for primetime in keeping with like awards shows and concerts. The Library will select and issue an invitation to the honoree. Previous productions have been funded through fundraising and Broadcast network. Offeror questions are due July 6, 2021 at 12:00 Noon EST. Proposals are due July 23, 2021 at 12:00 Noon EST. Amendment 0001 strikes language in section C.6.2 and replaces it with new language. The solicitation has been amended to provide answers to questions (Attachment J-2) and section L has been amended. See attached amendment.