Official UK procurement notice
UK House & Games Time Activity Scoping
Authority: WEST MIDLANDS GROWTH COMPANY LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWMGC is undertaking a large amount of work on profile raising, promotion and setting out investment propositions in advance of the Commonwealth Games. This is particularly focused, but not exclusively, on the events surrounding the Queens Baton
Relay through the Commonwealth nations. The work will continue in the run up to the Games with a significant amount of activity taking place during the period of the Games
- the promotional and business development work during the Games is taking part in'UK House'. There is now a need to start putting detailed plans in place for those activities and with all of the other work underway, there is a need to build greater short term capacity within the WMGC team.
CPV: Research and development services and related consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #12.1 The Business and Tourism Programme (BATP) is seeking to Direct Award to Mickledore…Awarded
2.1 The Business and Tourism Programme (BATP) is seeking to Direct Award to Mickledore Limited to deliver three phases of work, to facilitate the delivery of a comprehensive and integrated inward investment programme during the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
2.2Initial Scoping of activity and programme - to include: Identification of those
promotional / business development aspects that must take place to best showcase the West Midlands during the period of the games; Presentation and evaluation of a range of different approaches to games-time delivery, ranging from set piece presentations through to one-to-one bespoke visit itineraries; Identification of stakeholder organisations which could help
represent the West Midlands, through hosted events, in presentations and on panels.
2.3 Stakeholder Engagement - to include: mapping out of overarching programme of activity during the games, ensuring the correct balance of sector & market focused events, with time allocated for other appropriate hospitality; identification of venue requirements to deliver the programme; engagement with prospective partner organisations to secure their commitment to deliver activity as part of the overarching programme; engagement with in-market representatives and other intermediaries to assess and plan for the needs of prospective delegations.
2.4 Implementation - to include: Finalisation of overarching programme of activity; creation of a detailed work plan for each event/activation point; evaluation of programme resource requirements and presentation of a number of solutions to service the requirements of multiple concurrent investor delegations; promotional work with intermediaries and other programme content/hosting partners to secure maximum delegation attraction success.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Feb 2022, 12:52 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Feb 2022, 12:52 GMT
- Authority reference
2021-WMGC-0065- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-004005- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-031640Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights
- Published justification
West Midlands Growth Company Ltd to directly award Mickledore Limited the contract due to reasons of technical and artistic reasons, which are connected with the protection of exclusive rights, the public contract may be awarded only to a particular economic operator when the services are to be purchased or hired under the contract are required by the contracting authority as a partial replacement for, or in addition to, existing services and when to obtain the services from a supplier other than the supplier which supplied the existing services would oblige the contracting authority to acquire services having different technical characteristics which would result in-incompatibility between the existing services purchased or hired under the contract; or may cause disproportionate technical difficulties in the delivery of the existing services.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mickledore LtdSME | £58,500 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
UK House & Games Time Activity Scoping · Mickledore LtdSME
- Signed
- 11 Feb 2022
- Value
- £58,500
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Commercial Working GroupReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Mickledore LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.