Asset Mapping for the Automotive Supply Chain in the West Midlands

Marketing Birmingham is the area’s strategic marketing partnership and operates the leisure and business tourism programmes, Visit and Meet Birmingham as well as its inward investment programme, Business Birmingham. These programmes promote Birmingham and its wider area, including the Black Country and Solihull. Business Birmingham (BB) and UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) are to implement a sector focused engagement programme for automotive supply chain companies in Greater Birmingham, and develop further with other LEPs. The Greater Birmingham area has the potential to act as a catalyst for a renewed approach to supply chain engagement in sectors of particular strength for the project area such as the automotive sector. This contract will be procured and managed by Marketing Birmingham and includes requirements from other project partners. The company is public/private funded by Birmingham City Council and the European Regional Development Fund through its Investing in the City Region project as well as a number of private sector partners from across the area’s wider business community. This contract is partially funded by ERDF. This project is designed to provide a sufficiently robust dataset to enable a range of analyses to be undertaken. Please refer to the tender brief for full details of the tender requirements, process and timescales by registering on Marketing Birmingham’s eProcurement system (details follow). To access the tender brief and enable tender submission, all suppliers MUST visit the Marketing Birmingham e-Procurement system to register interest and submit a tender bid. eProcurement https://in-tendhost.co.uk/marketingbirmingham/aspx/Home Please note the deadline for full submission as outlined in the attached brief is no later than 12 noon on Tuesday 3rd June 2014.