UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

Tourism Northern Ireland (Tourism NI) is responsible for the marketing of Northern Ireland (NI) as a tourist destination to domestic tourists (from within NI) and visitors from the Republic of Ireland (ROI). Under the Tourism NI Operating Plan (2023/24), the Insights and Intelligence Service (IIS) is tasked with delivering a robust evidence base for Tourism NI, industry and stakeholders to help inform policy and strategy development and operational decisions. Within Tourism NI, the IIS is responsible for providing internal and external stakeholders with robust and relevant research, intelligence, and information to support the growth of the NI tourism industry via robust, analysis and insight into how such issues affect NI and ROI consumers. See ID 4692815 Specification document for further information.

Tourism NI wishes to appoint a Contractor to undertake the following tasks: • Supply, storage, delivery and installation of corporate, industry and consumer display and promotional materials at both Tourism NI corporate events and sponsored/funded consumer events; • Technical AV support for in-house delivered Tourism NI corporate and industry events.

Tourism NI has a requirement to appoint Suppliers for three Lots to help deliver/manage events to help it achieve their key objectives: • Lot 1: Tourism Enterprise Development (TED) Programme • Lot 2: Business Solutions Events • Lot 3: Ad Hoc Corporate Events The contract will run for a period of three years with the option to extend for a further period of up to and including 24 months.

Tourism Northern Ireland (Tourism NI) is responsible for the development of tourism and the marketing of Northern Ireland as a tourist destination, using the discovernorthernireland.com website. Tourism NI require a supplier to deliver a Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) e-Tourism solution to support the migration, delivery, licencing, support, maintenance and development of a Content Management System (CMS) and Destination Management System (DMS), outputting as the consumer destination website discovernorthernireland.com.

Tourism Northern Ireland wishes to appoint a Supplier or Suppliers for the supply and delivery of its advertising, design and marketing services. These requirements have been split into 3 Lots as detailed below. Whilst no spend is guaranteed against any of the Lots, the maximum anticipated value of each Lot over the lifetime of the contract is detailed below. Lot 1: Strategic and Lead Creative Agency with an estimated contract value of £14,375,000 Lot 2: Digital Media Services with an estimated contract value of £6,250,000 Lot 3: Offline Media Services with an estimated contract value of £14,375,000. Supplier(s) should note that there may be workload fluctuations at different times of the year. All of the above Lots will be evaluated and awarded independently of one another. There are no restrictions on the number of Lots a Tenderer can bid for or be awarded. Therefore, tenderers may tender for one, two, or all three of the Lots. For all lots, Tourism Northern Ireland will aim to appoint a maximum of 2 Contractors per lot. These Contractors will be ranked 1 and 2 in respect of each Lot on the basis of the Most Economically Advantageous Tender (MEAT) being awarded rank 1

TNI has a requirement for the provision of private coach hire services to facilitate a number of Familiarisation Trips and Business Events throughout each year. The service will entail the collection and transportation of persons as directed by TNI to and from various locations throughout Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Tourism NI is now seeking to establish a contract to appoint Supplier(s) to provide coaching and transport services to help deliver it’s FAM trips and Business Events and achieve Tourism NI’s overarching objectives. The contract will be separated into Lots, one for each of the requirements below, which will be dictated by the FAM type and visitor and the business event requirements. Lot 1 Large Executive and Luxury Coaches Lot 2 Small to Medium Sized VIP and Executive Coaches There is no limit on the number of Lots a Tenderer can submit a tender for or can be awarded.

Tourism NI wish to appoint a Supplier to carry out a programme of industry research. As a core requirement Tourism NI envisage a minimum of one tourism barometer survey each year with a broadly representative sample of Northern Ireland’s tourism industry to provide an insight into year-to-date tourism performance and outlook for the remainder of the year. Additional be-spoke ad hoc industry surveys and research projects on a range of industry wide or sector specific topics may also be required including for example; evaluation surveys for industry support programmes and key Business to Business trade events, including business conferences surveys, These additional surveys and other projects, such as quick turnaround surveys and qualitative in-depth interviews/ industry focus groups will be ad-hoc, demand-led and budget dependent. The contract period will be fixed for 3 years with no optional extension. Please refer to tender documents for full details.

The Northern Ireland Tourist Board trading as Tourism Northern Ireland (TNI) (“the Client”) wishes to appoint a Contractor to provide a Managed Business Support Service to the Tourism Industry. The Client is a statutory, non-departmental public body funded by the Department for the Economy (DfE), from monies provided by the Northern Ireland Assembly. For further details please see the procurement documents

Tourism NI is seeking a supplier(s) to deliver a comprehensive set of activities that will support the implementation of the Employer Recognition Programme (ERP). This programme is designed to assist tourism and hospitality businesses across Northern Ireland in improving their people management practices and achieving accreditation under the programme. This contract will be broken down into 3 Lots: 1. LOT 1: Programme management and administration 2. LOT 2: Employee survey and actionable insights 3. LOT 3: Mentoring Support. Each Lot will be evaluated and awarded independently of each other. There are no restrictions on the number of lots a Supplier can bid for or be awarded. Suppliers must ensure that if they are bidding for multiple Lots that they have the capacity to deliver the services if they are successful in more than one Lot. Each Lot under this Contract will be awarded on the basis of the Most Advantageous Tender (MAT) with a single supplier awarded each Lot. Suppliers should refer to the Specification Schedule for full detail on the requirements for each lot of this contract.