UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

Sustainability is key priority for the tourism sector and working in partnerships with other West Midlands DMO's. WMGC is seeking to award a contract to GDSM for membership / inclusion to their index and associated services.

The West Midlands Growth Company ("WMGC") is the strategic, economic development vehicle for the West Midlands region, and was established by its shareholders: the West Midlands Combined Authority ("WMCA") and its constituent members. WMGC is commissioning the second phase of a Hotel Feasibility Study. Based on the Phase 1 Report analysis, WMGC will work with its local authority shareholders to establish up to 6 sites to be assessed on their feasibility for a hotel development under Phase 2. WMGC are now seeking the production of a Single Report, addressing the feasibility for a hotel development on each of these specific sites.

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) has a requirement to establish an agreement with a single supplier to provide a mobile voice, data and device provision for all staff employed by the company. This procurement is being undertaken as a further competition under the Crown Commercial Service framework agreement - Mobile Voice and Data Services (RM6261) Lot 2.

It is the intention of WMGC to Direct Award to ResearchFDI for a contraction extension of their current delivery of West Midlands Health Innovation Accelerator (WMHIA) with a shift in focus for MedTech lead generation contract for the delivery of GGP 2024. ResearchFDI will still actively promote the WMHTIA as a regional asset whilst UoB project team are processing the 200 expression of interest forms.

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) will establish an agreement with one supplier to deliver the requirements included in the scope of this tender process. The tender is focused on the agency delivering a creative campaign strategy, plan and high-quality, multi-format creative concepts that can be deployed across a range of campaign activations. Strategic Creative We require the services of a strategic lead creative and marketing agency to develop a campaign strategy, plan and impactful creative multi-channel marketing campaign that will resonate with our identified target audiences Campaign deliverables include (but are not exclusive to): o Big idea campaign creative concept/s, leveraging and building out the innovation narrative and messaging that has been developed by our communications agency o Advertising and campaign core assets - hero campaign, hero advert (film), and high-level activations which may include an experiential concept o Range of sector and life-stage focused marketing campaign assets for international markets, defined by the media strategy, but including programmatic creative (audio, video, display) and outdoor appropriate to international markets (media spend budget is separate) o Creative for sales materials - brochures and flyers o Content and creative for digital channel amplification - social media, campaign microsite o Case study creative formats - video and written o Full events activations: examples include London Tech Week, EXPO Real and Birmingham Tech Week o International sales missions - we are planning international trade missions in 24/25 where we would showcase the campaign using related collateral, content and presentations o Physical experiential in one location o Guerilla campaign activity * Key Sectors include: Low Carbon CleanTech, Future Mobility, Business Professional & Financial Services, Life Sciences, Data Driven Health Care, Advanced Manufacturing and Creative & Digital Technologies

The aim of this project is to develop a Visitor Economy Insight Dashboard (VEID) to facilitate the delivery of actionable, near real-time insight supporting destination management, strategy planning, evaluation, and the implementation of the LVEP growth plan. VEID will provide us with a better awareness and understanding of destinations' status at any given moment. Advanced data visualization techniques will empower LVEP partners and other stakeholders with interactive tools specifically designed for visualizing multiple data layers.

12 month renewal of ZOHO One software licencing

As part of the West Midlands Growth Companies goal of growing the support provided to new to market FDI businesses participating in the Global Growth Programme (GGP), we're developing a series of events centred around the aim of building a community of GGP businesses. To achieve this aim, the need has been identified to procure the services of a provider who can help to deliver community events and encourage attendance from participants. The GGP community will comprise of former GGP participants (around 30), the new programme members (up to 40), plus various stakeholders in the region. We want the members to play a very active role in shaping and driving the community. There are two main elements to this project - the management of the GGP Community and the delivery of community related events. The contract is expected to commence 8th July 2024 and will be completed by 31st March 2025.

The West Midlands Growth Company is seeking to establish an agreement with a single supplier to provide development and consultancy support for our Zoho One systems and processes. The supplier will provide development and consultancy support outside of our current licencing agreement which is currently contracted via another provider. The appointed supplier must be an approved Zoho One consulting partner. The initial term of this agreement will be from 1 August 2024 until 31 March 2025.

The West Midlands Growth Company is seeking to establish an agreement with a single supplier to provide IT Support and Maintenance for our both our systems and end users. The West Midlands Growth Company is currently situated on the 11th floor of The Colmore Building in central Birmingham. Currently, the entire workforce operates on a hybrid working model which is expected to be in place for the foreseeable future. There are a considerable number of services hosted in the Microsoft Business platform; these consist of SharePoint and Office 365. The file sharing uses the SharePoint platform, the historic document management system and finance applications can be accessed via a remote desktop connection to a virtual server, which will need to remain in place throughout the term of this contract. The initial term of this agreement will be from 5th August 2024 until 31st March 2025 with the option to extend for a further two years, reviewed on an annual basis, subject to future funding and ongoing requirements. If the break clause is to be executed, there will be a minimum notification period of three months provided.

To undertake an options appraisal relating to the investment proposition at the Molineux Quarter to include: Evaluate potential redevelopment options, considering financial viability, stakeholder alignment, and market demand. Analyse the potential impact of the regeneration on the local economy, community, Develop a comprehensive proposal outlining the preferred option(s) for regeneration, including financial projections, timelines, and risk assessments.

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) has a requirement to appoint a sole provider to conduct a visitor survey to understand the profile, experience, and behaviour of visitors to the West Midlands region. The aim of this project is to provide market intelligence on the profile and demographics of visitors to the West Midlands, their motivation to visit, sources of information they have used to research and plan their trip, the most popular and well used aspects of the area's visitor offer, visitor satisfaction and visitor expenditure. The project outputs are required to inform regional and local visitor economic strategy, positioning and tactics in its work to promote and develop the Visitor Economy as required via its Service Level Agreement with local councils. The sucessful supplier is expected to undertake an on-street and an on-line visitor survey.

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) has a requirement to appoint a sole provider to design and build a web based digital mapping platform (DMP) to promote strategically important real estate investment sites across the region. WMGC would like to build a market leading web based digital mapping platform (DMP) which will effectively promote strategically important real estate investment sites across the region, to investors, developers, and end-use occupiers. This will help facilitate the regeneration of the built environment, one of WMGC's organisational goals. The successful supplier will be responsible for the delivery of a DMP which will be a high-profile, high quality, market facing tool with a market leading 'look and feel'. Once complete the DMP will be in full ownership and control of the WMG. This is to allow for the ability to edit information in real time to reflect the true position of the proposition. The successful supplier needs to be able to demonstrate that the platform will be able to communicate with ZOHO, our CRM system, to ensure that expressions of interest are accurately captured. This is to help with lead generation and enhance our reporting to our shareholders.

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) has a requirement to appoint a sole provider to conduct an annual perception survey / study and provide associated output reporting for the West Midlands region against a series of defined key perception metrics. This piece of work needs to track progress against a series of key perceptions metrics (i) awareness/familiarity with the region's offer as an investment, business and tourism destination. (ii) positive/negative sentiment about the region's offer and (iii) consideration of the region's offer - i.e. likelihood of recommending, investing in or visiting the West Midlands. It needs to target the following key audiences (i) domestic and overseas visitors and (ii) key intermediaries that influence investment in the West Midlands - to include investment advisers, business conference organisers, sporting event organisers and travel trade professionals and a range of priority markets. These will be based on the region's new Internationalisation Strategy and will be agreed with the successful supplier. It needs to track the effectiveness of our marcomms activity in terms of (i) market cut through - the proportion of our target audiences in key target markets that can recall our campaigns and (ii) the uplift in visibility/awareness, positive sentiment and consideration achieved. It also needs to inform the marcomms strategies and tactics of WMGC and its regional partners- providing insights on the perceived strengths and weaknesses of the region's offer, what our target audiences associate the region and the most effective communication channels.

South Korea has been identified as a high-potential market for cleantech FDI, with additional synergies across the broader Diatomic programme. WMGC has recently completed a mission to South Korea and seeks to capitalise on the stakeholder meetings undertaken and to progress the leads generated during the mission. WMGC is also seeking to generate well-qualified leads and opportunities, with a view to securing applications for the Diatomic cleantech FDI hub up until the application closing date of 31st of March 2025. WMGC also seeks to raise the profile of the region with key Korean stakeholders in government, sector associations, and other intermediaries. WMGC is seeking an organisation that can act as the strategic business development and front-end sales partner in inward investment lead generation for the West Midlands Growth Company in market, presenting itself to key stakeholders and prospective investors as a direct extension of the Growth Company's business development team.

For Information Only - Contract Awarded Pavilion partnership agreement at UKREiiF 2025

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) will establish an agreement with one supplier to deliver the requirements included in the scope of this tender process. The tender is focused on the agency delivering a media buying strategy and media buy to support an international B2B campaign that is in development, due to launch in August 2024. The West Midlands Growth Company is seeking an expert media buying agency to plan, execute, track and report on our global investment campaign - It Starts Here. WMGC's inward investment campaign is designed to increase international and national visibility surrounding the region's business ecosystem, improve perceptions and generate interest from investors and investment intermediaries. It supports the wider objective of seeking to address a West Midlands' market failure where we are overlooked by investors and relocating companies for other, better known, destinations such as London and Manchester. We require a media buying agency with international experience to work with us and in partnership with our appointed PR and creative agency to develop efficient and creative routes to reach our target audiences(s) including a mix of OOH, digital and experiential activity to deliver high-quality activations until March 2025.

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) has a requirement to establish an agreement with a sole supplier to provide specialist support for the requirements included in the scope of this Request for Quotation (RFQ) process. Global West Midlands is a two-year funding programme that has underwritten WMGC's activities in 2023-24 and 2025. As part of the final evaluation of the programme, a survey of its beneficiaries is required. This should seek views on the effectiveness of the processes and approaches that have been implemented to deliver the programme, what has worked well, what has worked less well, areas of good practice, and lessons that can inform the delivery of future programmes. Measurable Outputs: o A survey of 30-40 programme beneficiaries (inward investors, business conference organisers, sporting federations and travel trade professionals). o A set of interview write-ups and a summary report, highlighting key findings. A survey of a sample of 30-40 programme beneficiaries (inward investors, business conference organisers, sporting federations and travel trade professionals) is required which should focus on: o The effectiveness of their initial engagement with the programme and the support they received. o Any aspects that they feel went particularly well or less well. o Gathering evidence to further inform the analysis of the economic impact of the programme - notably: o Additionality - whether the investment, conference or event was attracted to the West Midlands as a direct result of WMGC's activity - or would have come to the region anyway. o Wider regional benefit - the extent to which the investment, conference of event has had a wider regional impact (e.g. the extent to which inward investors are recruiting staff and/or sourcing materials, components or services from within the West Midlands, the benefits generated by conferences and events within the West Midlands tourism sector). While potential suppliers are free to propose whatever survey methodology, they feel is most appropriate, it needs to elicit the kind of in-depth qualitative intelligence required.

UKREiiF is the UK's real estate investment and infrastructure forum. It is a three-day real estate event that was established in 2022, defying expectations, attracting thousands of domestic and international developers, investors, councils and built environment thought leaders. Its aim is to connect people, places and businesses to accelerate and unlock sustainable, inclusive and transformational investment. Supported by a high number of regional combined authorities, local councils and Government departments - as well as the largest developers and investors from across the UK and internationally - this event will gather all the key players, influencers and decision makers within the investment and real estate markets to highlight investment and development opportunities, whilst connecting and facilitating new relationships to drive economic growth through development and regeneration. UKREiiF is a fast-growing show within its industry and the projections for 2025 are: o 16,000+ Event Attendees o 2,500+ Fringe Event Attendees o 1,250+ Speakers o 60+ Stages o 150+ Exhibitors o 150+ Fringe Events o 275+ Local Authorities Attending o 1,750+ Investors Attending o 1,000+ Occupiers Attending In 2025 the event will run from 20 - 22 May and be held at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. For additional information regarding UKREiiF please visit www.ukreiif.com As the organiser for the West Midlands presence at UKREiiF, WMGC have secured a pitch to erect a 200sqm pavilion to act as the West Midlands home during the 3-day UKREiiF conference. In addition, there is a requirement for a 5m rain canopy spanning the entire 20m front of the pavilion and to one side. Mandatory Requirements Contractor Agreement - the successful supplier will be expected to enter into a Contractor Agreement with UKREiiF. Health & Safety - the successful supplier will be expected to provide Risk Assessments, Method Statements and any PAT Testing Certification as required by either WMGC or the event organiser. This will include a Health & Safety Declaration form. A sample of last years agreement is included in the RFQ document set. CAD Plans - the successful supplier must be able to provide a final set of CAD plans for the build. Pavilion Space We have a 20m x 10m space to build on. The pavilion will sit within the Tiltyard at Leeds Royal Armouries Museum. Required Elements - 20m x 10m Clearspan Premium Structure with Curved PVC Roof - X3 2.5m Glass Double Door with Emergency Exit Bar (c/w Door Key): x2 on the front of the pavilion and x1 on door side of bay. - X2 8x4 Ramps with green astro turf (x1 for the front entrance & x1 for the side door) - 20m frontage to be glass, sides and rear to be solid walls. - 5m width clear rain canopy to run along the front of the pavilion - 20m branded gable end - Heater/ air flowing unit - Canopy/ cover for the area on the right-...

To provide specialist consulltancy support in relation to • Global head-hunting of projects, finance, IP and talent • On the ground support for HETV and film productions filming in the West Midlands • Stakeholder and industry management • Regular contacts with commissioning bodies nationally and internationally • Provide advocacy and support for regional talent and projects • Lead delivery of the next phase of the WM inward investment strategy to increase production, investment and talent across the West Midlands • Work with Create Central, WMCA and partners to support the development of a WM Production Office • Work with regional and national partners such as DCMS, BFI and Creative England to identify sources of production investment for the region