Official UK procurement notice
Global Challenges Forum · UK public procurement notice
Authority: WEST MIDLANDS GROWTH COMPANY LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Forum for Global Challenges is an international biennial conference. The next conference is to be held over 3 days at The ICC in Birmingham on 3-5 May 2022. A preceding international
programme of online and physical events, which began on 19 January 2021, are being delivered by the University's Institute for Global Innovation
CPV: Event services · Exhibition, fair and congress organisation services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 18 Feb 2022, 16:22 GMT
- Last source update
- 18 Feb 2022, 16:22 GMT
- Authority reference
2021-WMGC-0031- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-004710- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-031902Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
- Published justification
It is the intention of WMGC Ltd to directly award this contract to the University of Birmingham due to nature of the service required falling into a concession threshold.
- The concession route allows for Workstream Leads to engage with the market giving ability to talk about the procurement before the actual process in procuring the service has taken place and, in that regard, the Workstream Leads on the Project Natalie King and Roger Mendonca engaged with the market through soft market testing which was also a call for requesting fully developed and costed proposals against a criterion which is SMART.
- The Concession route was considered because it gives the ability to be creative with the award criteria by linking the measurables to the subject matter of the contract by empowering the Workstream lead to consider the needs required to be achieved and developing a criterion of measurement to ensure that those needs are met
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Birmingham | £208,333 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Global Challenges Forum · University of Birmingham
- Signed
- 20 Dec 2021
- Value
- £208,333
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids · 0 electronic | 0 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Commercial Working GroupReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- University of BirminghamAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.