Web Development Services for RSPB

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Flow Country website development

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

We wish to identify a contractor who, working with our project staff and partners, can create and develop an adaptive website, to help inspire and engage people both with the Flows to the Future project and the Flow Country in Caithness and Sutherland. At this stage we are seeking expressions of interest and a summary strategy.

Flows to the Future is a project being delivered by the Peatlands Partnership, with RSPB as the lead body. The main funder of the project is the Heritage Lottery Fund, but this element of the project also has funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

We want to deliver a creative online experience that brings this remote conservation project closer to home. The website will be developed in the first year of the project, but we expect the online experience to develop further over the five years of the project, sustaining, developing and growing interest.

A short document (two sides of A4) should outline how you would approach the website development and a few key ideas around engagement on a subject that might not immediately grab the public’s attention. Invited agencies/ organisations will then get an opportunity to submit further details and attend an interview. We welcome tenders from agencies/ organisations who wish also to submit tenders for our digital modelling tender.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=341413.

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.publiccontractsscotland.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

The maximum budget is £50k including all expenses but exclusive of VAT. There will also be an additional £15k available for development and upgrading of the website up to September 2019.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Dual stage – Candidates must first pass a selection procedure before being invited to tender or negotiate.

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

4.3

Time Limits

b) Deadline for requests to participate
24-03-2015  Time  17:00

c) Dispatch of invitations to tender 27-03-2015

d) Estimated award date 07-05-2015

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.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

The shortlist will be drawn up based on understanding of the brief, creative solutions suggested and previous experience. A more detailed brief will then be sent out to those shortlisted.

(SC Ref:341413)

5.2

Additional Documentation

5.3

Publication date of this notice

10-03-2015