Contract Term: up to four years (April 2025 - March 2029) Total Contract Value: up to £170,000 excluding VAT Arts Council England (ACE) are seeking to appoint a delivery partner for our All In Member Services Hub. All In is a new arts access scheme for D/deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent people in the UK and Ireland. You can find out more on our website: https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/developing-creativity-and-culture/diversity/all-in Creative and cultural experiences should be accessible to all. By removing barriers, organisations across the UK and Ireland can welcome more people with access requirements through their doors. Together, we will work towards a sector which says, ‘everyone’s welcome’. This advert refers to the commissioning of a customer support service to support the operation of All In; the new Access Scheme supporting the experience of D/deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent people when attending arts and cultural events in the UK and Ireland, launching in Autumn/Winter 2025. The Member Services Support Hub will specifically support individuals who are members of the scheme - D/deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent people who buy tickets and attend arts and cultural events – with all aspects of managing their membership (e.g. understanding what All In offers, setting up their account, low level tech support and navigating our online platform). The Member Services Support Hub needs to offer various accessible ways for members to seek and receive high quality support (e.g. telephone, email, online chat). We are currently scoping out our requirements and would welcome the opportunity to discuss this further with potential suppliers who have knowledge and experience of delivering accessible customer support, informed by the Social Model of Disability, via some market engagement meetings on 23rd and 24th January 2025 through Microsoft Teams. To help you prepare, the topics we wish to discuss are: 1) Your proposed approach for delivery 2) How the services may evolve over time 3) Charges/payment profile 4) Contract duration 5) Social Value opportunities. If you are interested in participating in our market engagement activities, please forward: - some brief information (max 2 sides of A4) about your organisation and your experience of delivering accessible customer support - the names, job titles and email addresses, of the individuals available to attend our market engagement meetings via teams on 23rd and 24th January 2025 to procurement.services@artscouncil.org.uk by 2pm on 22nd January 2025. Please quote procurement reference ACE 669 in the subject line of your email.
Arts Council England intends to commission a Digital Membership System (DMS), as part of a programme of work to develop a UK-wide access scheme, which will improve access, usability, and inclusion for D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people to creative and cultural activity across the UK. The access scheme will improve the D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent audience experience of creative and cultural organisations by offering practical tools that will help organisations offer better access provisions in a more efficient manner, underpinned by industry backed access standards for the sector as well as training and support to meet those standards. It will also provide audience insights for partners and participating venues. The scheme’s DMS will be one of the cornerstones of the scheme, as a tool which facilitates the connection between creative and cultural organisations and their customers. The DMS will allow customers to sign up to the scheme and create a profile giving details of their access requirements. Organisations will also sign up via the DMS and create profiles for their access provisions and performances. The database of organisations and their provisions will be used to create access directories to aid customers to find events and activities that meet their requirements. Organisations will also be able to subscribe to the access scheme, giving them access to the database of customers and their requirements. The DMS will therefore be a tool which allows customers to quickly and easily share their requirements with any arts or cultural organisation they wish to attend, either through tech integrations with their existing ticketing and CRM software or by manual look up. We are open to different approaches to delivering a DMS either being procured from a consortium or a single multi-disciplined supplier, with the development work occurring within the UK. We would welcome the opportunity to talk with a supplier or suppliers about potential solutions, either using existing technology or developing a new system for the task. We are particularly interested in speaking with disabled-led or organisations with a particular focus on disability and accessibility. We would like to engage in Pre-market engagement in August/September 2023 to explore the available options for developing the DMS. Please note, this early market engagement is not the start of the formal procurement process, but an opportunity to discuss the project more openly before the formal process begins. We do, however, have a developed scope of requirements that we will share with those we invite to take part in the pre-market engagement to inform the discussion. Please forward some brief information (max 2 sides of A4) about your organisation and your experience of developing similar digital systems to procurement.services@artscouncil.org.uk . Please put "Access Scheme; Digital Membership System" in the email title.
512 ACE ITT Children & Young People National Survey
The commissioning of a national bespoke survey of cultural and creative engagement and participation among children and young people aged from 0-16 in England, providing a robust sample at a lower geographic level than previously available. The intention is for this survey to be undertaken triennially, conducted multiple times over the lifetime of the Arts Council England's "Let’s Create" strategy and tracking change over time. We are currently gauging interest for delivering the first iteration of this survey only. We do not have a specific approach in mind and would welcome the opportunity to discuss this further with suppliers experienced in delivering surveys of a similar scale, via some market engagement meetings to be held in May 2023. If you are interested in attending one of the market engagement meetings please forward some brief information (max 2 sides of A4) about your organisation and your experience of running similar surveys to procurement.services@artscouncil.org.uk . Please put "CYP Survey" in the email title.
Provision of Total Facilities Management Services at a number of Arts Council England properties across England. Services may include cleaning services, window cleaning services, security services, compliance inspection, testing, servicing and planned and reactive maintenance of building fabric and systems. Full details of requirement and sites in documents