RR Donnelley Awarded $114M Contract for 2020 Census Production

Dan Knotts

CHICAGO - January 8, 2018 - R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (RRD), a global provider of multichannel solutions for marketing and business communications, today announced that the U.S. Government Publishing Office awarded RRD a $114 million contract to coordinate and produce 2020 Census printing materials and mailing services. RRD will utilize its leading data, logistics, print and operational platforms to manage one of the largest and most complex communication programs in the world. The program will include more than 600 million documents mailed to more than 130 million households across the United States.

“We are honored to have the opportunity to execute materials and services for the upcoming 2020 Census,” said Dan Knotts, RRD’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “We will draw upon a combination of our leading data analytics capabilities and our long-standing expertise adhering to the strictest data and security requirements across highly regulated industries to execute this critical communications initiative. We are excited to get started and look forward to completing this important work with the same high standards and impeccable production quality that we employ every day for our clients around the world.”

Throughout 2019 and 2020, RRD will produce and coordinate 2020 Census materials including questionnaires, letters, inserts, postcards and envelopes. The work will be completed in RRD’s extensive print and production facilities across the United States. As part of this project, RRD plans to make additional investments in binding, printing and other equipment early in 2019. Although RRD expects certain phases of the work to be completed in 2019, most of the product shipments are scheduled to occur in 2020.

Source: R.R. Donnelley

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