Bids

Aquastone is a certified SBE/MBE (SET-ASIDE) for the State of Connecticut

The State's Supplier Diversity program targets that at least 25% of the state's business is transacted with small businesses including those owned by minorities, women and the disabled. To participate, simply register with the Department of Administrative Services. Once certified, you can bid on contracts covered by the program as well as all other state contracts. SUPPLIER DIVERSITY (SET-ASIDE) 165 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106 Ph: (860) 713-5236 | Fx: (860) 713-7484 | e-mail: Supplier.Diversity@ct.gov

Commercial Level

Submit RFQ or free. Clients choose their ideal service, provide how many bids are submitted, and how they want Aquastone to contact them.

Nutshell

1. Submit your design brief to Aquastone and acknowledge.
2. Acknowledge Aquastone as a bidders. (Aquastone may have further questions)
3. Client review bids and submit a final notice to bidders.

Request For Proposals (RFP) - Client Starter Guide

This shows the process a client goes through to post a project service request with Aquastone.

1. Fill out the project form
2. Aquastone provide suggestions depending on the service needed.
3. Once you acknowledge, Aquastone will submit a gantt cart and other brand management tools.
4. You will be notified on milestones completed.

Checklist

For us to better assist you, please take these parameters into consideration:

1. Please provide a clear statement of your objectives, with properties.
2. Relate the objectives to overall company positioning.
3. Indicate if and how you will measure achievement of your goals.
4. Define, characterize and prioritize your audience.
5. Define your budget and time frame
6. Explain the internal approval process
7. Be clear about procedural requirements (ex. If more than one bid is needed from fabricators, or if there's a minimum acceptable level of detail for design presentations)

Forms

• Business Standards Agreement
• Artist Team Member Contract
• Printing Turnaround Time
• Aiga 9 Standard Agreement
• AIGA Contract
• Aiga Ethics Clients Guide
• Business Standards Code of Conduct Confidentiality Agreement
• Confidentiality Agreement
• Approval Form
• Copyright Release
• Credit Card Approval Form
• Work For Hire
• Desktop Publishing Request
• Request For Quote
• QC & Deployment

Work For Hire

General Info

Aquastone is available for work made for hire. If your project meets all criteria explained below, work-for-hire applies. Copyrights will belong to Aquastone Graphics llc. unless the company assigns it to client. (More information about copyright is available in the AIGA publication 'Guide to Copyright' and directly from the U.S. Copyright Office at www.copyright.gov.) More will be discussed during consultation. Once the project has been completed and introduced to the public, Aquastone will have the right to add the client's name to our client list and the right to enter the work into design competitions. Aquastone requests a credit line is included and granted to show and explain portions of the completed project to other companies when pitching to new businesses.

Note

The phrase 'Work-for-Hire,' comes from U.S. copyright law. It refers to original work made by an employee within the scope of his or her job, in which copyright ownership automatically belongs to the employer. However, it can also refer to original work made by an independent contractor or a design firm, in which copyright ownership might automatically belong to the client. This is only true if the work meets very specific criteria. It must be specially ordered or commissioned, and it must fall within one of nine categories:

1. A contribution to a collective work (such as a magazine, an anthology or an encyclopedia)
2. A work that is part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work (such as a website or multimedia project)
3. A translation
4. A supplement prepared as an adjunct to a work created by another author (such as a foreword, an appendix, or charts)
5. A compilation (a new arrangement of pre-existing works, such as a catalog)
6. An instructional text (whether it is literary, pictorial or graphic)
7. A test
8. Answer material for a test
9. An atlas