Software Development Contract – Online Voting Tool

Grow Wild www.growwilduk.com High level requirement and timelines RGB Kew is looking to appoint an established and experienced UK-based supplier to provide the following goods and services. An online voting tool that can: profile up to six shortlisted community sites (also referred to as flagship sites within this notice); captures, monitors and reports on live voting events. • Grow Wild England flagship site voting campaign: runs from September-October 2014 • Grow Wild Wales flagship site voting campaign: runs from September-October 2015 • Grow Wild Northern Ireland flagship site voting campaign: runs from October-November 2015 The supplier must have experience of running high profile online voting campaigns, including TV promotion. Background Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) received a grant from the Big Lottery Fund (BIG) to lead Grow Wild; a dynamic programme to inspire people, especially young people, to do something positive where they live by sowing UK native wild flowers and transforming spaces. Over its lifetime (2013-2017), Grow Wild has committed to funding four flagship sites – one each in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which will receive up to £120,000 to create an inspiring site that leaves a lasting footprint of the programme. In 2013 we launched flagship site voting in Scotland with three shortlisted projects over a three-week campaign. Working with local media and using targeted marketing material, we invited the general public to vote online for their favourite site and the winning project was The Waterworks in Barrhead. Read more here: https://www.growwilduk.com/scottish-flagship