Provide Public Relation Services to Invest Northern Ireland
Provision of Public Relation Services in the East and West Coast of United States of America.
United Kingdom-Belfast: Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
2016/S 118-209966
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name and addresses
Bedford Street
Belfast
BT3 9ED
United Kingdom
Contact person: paula.lavertyfinance-ni.gov.uk
E-mail: paula.laverty@finance-ni.gov.uk
NUTS code: UK
Main address: https://etendersni.gov.uk/eppsAddress of the buyer profile: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps
I.2)Joint procurement
I.3)Communication
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
I.5)Main activity
Section II: Object
II.1.1)Title:
Invest NI — Provision of Public Relation Services in the East and West Coast of United States of America.
II.1.2)Main CPV code
II.1.3)Type of contract
II.1.4)Short description:
Invest NI wishes to appoint up to a maximum of 2 Contractors to provide Public Relation (PR) services for the organisation in the US market to support the sales teams activities across the East coast and West coast of the USA. Whilst the PR service will be primarily focused in the East Coast cities of New York and Boston and the West Coast cities of San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Houston respectively. The scope of this contract shall also require PR services across other cities in both the East and West Coast, subject to meet the business needs and objectives of Invest NI.
II.1.6)Information about lots
II.2.1)Title:
East Coast USA
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Please note the services are required to be undertaken in the East Coast of America.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Invest NI wishes to appoint up to a maximum of 2 Contractors to provide Public Relation (PR) services for the organisation in the US market to support the sales teams activities across the East coast and West coast of the USA. Whilst the PR service will be primarily focused in the East Coast cities of New York and Boston and the West Coast cities of San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Houston respectively. The scope of this contract shall also require PR services across other cities in both the East and West Coast, subject to meet the business needs and objectives of Invest NI.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
1 year plus 1 year.
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
After the initial contract period, 22.8.2017, there are 2 options to extend for 1 year each.
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
II.2.1)Title:
West Coast USA
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
II.2.3)Place of performance
Please note the services are required to be undertaken in the West Coast of America.
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:
Invest NI wishes to appoint up to a maximum of 2 Contractors to provide Public Relation (PR) services for the organisation in the US market to support the sales teams activities across the East coast and West coast of the USA. Whilst the PR service will be primarily focused in the East Coast cities of New York and Boston and the West Coast cities of San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Houston respectively. The scope of this contract shall also require PR services across other cities in both the East and West Coast, subject to meet the business needs and objectives of Invest NI.
II.2.5)Award criteria
II.2.6)Estimated value
II.2.7)Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
1 year plus 1 year.
II.2.10)Information about variants
II.2.11)Information about options
After the initial contract period 22.8.2017, there are 2 options to extend for 1 year each.
II.2.13)Information about European Union funds
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1.2)Economic and financial standing
As per tender documents.
As per tender documents.
III.1.3)Technical and professional ability
As per tender documents.
As per tender documents.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
IV.2.2)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.2.4)Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted:
IV.2.6)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.2.7)Conditions for opening of tenders
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1)Information about recurrence
VI.3)Additional information:
Contract Monitoring: The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements are a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of 12 months from the date of issue of the certificate. The Authority expressly reserves the rights: (I) not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; (II) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition; (III) to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the (services) covered by this notice; and (IV) to award contract(s) in stages and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates.
VI.4.1)Review body
Belfast
United Kingdom
VI.4.3)Review procedure
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
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