Blanket Advertisement for Fair-Time Services

The California Department of Food and Agriculture, Fairs and Expositions Branch, is seeking a wide variety of services for the state-sponsored district fairs, including security, maintenance, entertainment, talent agent/buyer and carnival operators, master concessions, rentals, sound and lighting, maintenance/minor construction projects, medical health, marketing, and gate and parking services. Each fair maintains their own bidders lists and awards their own contracts. • Security services such as local law enforcement, private security, crowd control, building security, armored car service, and event management firms • Maintenance services including janitorial, refuse removal, manure removal from stalls, pest control services, and dust inhibitor treatments • Entertainment, talent agent/buyer and carnival operators • Master concessionaires for food and alcohol • Rentals of portable horse stalls, street sweepers, heavy equipment, parking and gate equipment, tents and booths, pipe and drape, livestock, portable stage, generators, portable bleachers, video screen equipment and projection services, portable trailers, portable lighting, portable fencing, portable toilets, golf carts, and crane service • Sound and lighting services including stage lighting, stage sound, backline, and corresponding equipment • Maintenance/minor construction projects under $10,000 including fencing, plumbing, roofing and gutters, bleacher repair, paving, building alterations, electrical, HVAC, and concrete • Medical health services such as ambulances, paramedics, first-aid centers, nurses, and EMTs • Marketing services including sponsorships, marketing/public relations (PR) agencies, social media manager, webmaster, printing, photography, videography, and ticketing platform • Gate and parking services, transportation including staffing and/or coordination of parking, admission, gates and credentials, programs, and bus transportation