How to reduce an illustrator file to 25 percent without losing quality?

I have created a graphic image at full size. The graphic company has requested the file to be reduced to 25% to allow uploading. I have no idea how to reduce the entire image while keeping it an illustrator file. I am also worried about losing the quality once it is expanded to 100%.

The file I have created is at full scale it is 186 inches by 152 inches. It
contains other things such as text and smaller images on top of the file. I
would like to keep all of the proportions but I am needing to scale my file
down to 25 percent of the original image. The graphic company requests this
and they plan to open it and rescale it to 100 percent. I am also worried
about losing quality when they rescale this photo. Am I making sense?
Megan B. Pierce
Photographer, Magic Kingdom, Disney College Program
Southeastern Louisiana University 2014
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Monika Gause <[email protected]>

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