Dear Google: I'm not a spammer selling things - I'm a buyer

Google seems to think that I'm a spammer. But really they're keeping a bunch of designers (5 or 6 now) from possibly getting my business. I'm trying to get in touch with a couple design studios about a web design project. I'm emailing them via the addresses they provide on their sites, and Google is rejecting my message: "Message rejected by Google Groups. Please visit http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188131 to review our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines." Is this a spam message? "[Dear Designer] -- I came across your site recently and was impressed with the work you've done. [My company] is looking to re-do our website and build a small portfolio of illustrations/icons that we can use in marketing (and potentially within our product). We've already started a "branding/logo" exercise internally so we're mainly looking for a partner to help design our web experience and generate some high-quality illustrations/graphics that help tell the story of our business/product. So, I'm interested in learning more about your work with [tech B2B/enterprise] design projects. About us: [50 word summary of our company] You can imagine that we're looking for a design partner that understands our product and its value and how to communicate it. Can you share some examples of stuff you've done that might make sense given all the above? Thanks"