Newport City Council Marketing Contract – Content Creation

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

As in 1.1

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Newport City Council Marketing – Content Creation

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

Newport City Council, on behalf of the Tourism Destination Management Group of the City of Newport, has in partnership with the Business Improvement District of the City Centre, Newport Now, applied for, and been successful in being awarded grant by the Welsh Government, Visit Wales to help develop the understanding of Newport’s story in order to join up the individual products and improve the visitor experience . This will encourage return visits and local spend, supporting the Welsh Government Partnership for Growth strategy to 2020.

The clients are therefore Newport City Council and’ Newport Now’ the Business Improvement District. http://newportbid.com/

Newport has significant heritage, culture and a range of things to do . Much work has already been done to identify the heritage of Newport and to develop key marketing collateral. These can be used as a resource to support the ‘Welcome to Newport’ project, bringing together the often disparate and independent sources of information, in a more meaningful way, for Newport as a visitor destination. This to be used for different content related outcomes.

The aim of this is that Newport begins to develop a bottom up brand identity for visitors, that inspires an Ambassadorial programme across the City. The content will be used as a base to develop Ambassador training programmes , and also used for different different types of marketing media

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=33568.

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx.

Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

a) Commodity Codes

b) Delivery Location/Area

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

Please see Additional Documents for more details

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage – Any candidate may submit a tender.

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

4.3

Time Limits

b) Time-limit for receipt of completed tenders
17-09-2015  Time  12:00

c) Estimated award date 21-09-2015

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

EN

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at http://www.sell2wales.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

(WA Ref:33568)

5.2

Additional Documentation

5.3

Publication date of this notice

28-08-2015