For our friends who are a bit surprised why we’re not writing a pitch document for this Birmingham Library game thing.. well its quite simple really, a couple of factors. 

Firstly as a company (RITH) we’ve never chased pots of public money. We’ve started a new policy of refusing to work on speculative bids for local govt. etc.. and we’ve never really pitched for work full stop…! People work with us because they know what we do, they pay us, we get the job done. It’s less messy this way and the focus is on the work not on finding the correct things to say in a pitch document or competing and giving away our creative analysis and strategies away for free. 

Secondly,  we dont enter into competition with any of our friends! Never done it, never will. During the course of considering this brief and researching around it, we realised that one of our friends have had time to consider it and are submitting their proposals for this. We suggested the possibility of doing something together and sadly the prospect of 3-4 way partnerships didn’t sit well with some of our friends’ other partners at the late stage.

So there you have it. Despite the brief almost being made for us, we’re not participating in this process.

In a sense its a shame we only heard about it when the public call happened which wasn’t that long ago! some heads up would have been nice, as our intentions and the space we’ve been operating in was public knowledge for some time as far back as early 2010, and more recently at SXSWi 2011!  ahh well. 

Good luck to everyone involved, we’re definitely up for consultancy for whoever wins the pitch!  ;)

** update ** just had a look, the mighty and frankly awesome ‘preloaded’ who were doing stuff and winning awards when we were still in uni, won the pitch! we’re excited and curious to see what they do!