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The purpose of this procurement process is to appoint an organisation who can provide stand design and build services (including AV) prior to and during the West Midlands' attendance at UKREiiF 2024. The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) will be coordinating the West Midlands presence at UKREiiF 2024. UKREiiF is the UK's real estate investment and infrastructure forum. It is a four-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 2024 are: 10,000 event attendees 2,500 fringe event attendees 150 exhibitors 250 local authorities attending 1,500 investors attending 1,500 developers attending In 2024 the event will run from 21 - 24 May and be held at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. For additional information regarding UKREiiF please visit www.ukreiif.com Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

We require the appointment of a sole supplier who can provide a recognisable green accreditation scheme that specialises in sustainable tourism. There are a number of reputable green accreditation certification schemes which assess tourism and hospitality businesses for their sustainable practice and award relevant marque which helps to improve business practice and guides visitors / trade to the quality of the business they choose. Any business that has a 'green' label will have implemented initiatives across its business that contribute a significant benefit to the environment and to responsible tourism. The businesses that the supplier will work with include accommodation providers, attractions, events venues and DMOs. Currently, across the West Midlands, there are fewer than 30 businesses in the Visitor Economy that have a recognised green accreditation. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) helps to create new jobs, expand existing businesses and attract new businesses and investment to the region, aligned to the ambitions set out in the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) Strategic Economic Plan. The WMGC has been established in partnership with Local Enterprise Partnerships, local authorities, Growth Hubs, universities and a wide range of businesses across the private sector. It focuses its seven local authorities: Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Solihull, Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley. The WMGC is owned by the WMCA and its Constituent Members, with governance that heavily involves the private sector in the majority. Its core WMCA and local authority funding will be used to attract significant additional funding from the private sector and other sources, such as future Devolution Deals. WMGC is part of the Local Organising Committee for the SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit 2024, delivering alongside Birmingham City Council and other local stakeholders as part of a Host City contract. As part of the contract for being SportAccord 2024's Host City, we can take a presence within the exhibition area of the event. To deliver this, we require an exhibition stand supplier to provide stand design and build services on the space allocated for us. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

On the back of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and the Business & Tourism Programme, with strong economic fundamentals in place, the West Midlands has a unique opportunity to establish itself as truly globally competitive in the coming years. Global West Midlands - the West Midlands Growth Company's business plan for July 2023 - March 25 - sets out how we propose to utilise our key functional areas of inward investment, capital attraction, the visitor economy and strategic relationship management to address regional challenges and capitalise on our opportunities, delivering the Plan for Growth and levelling up the region: The strategic objectives for the visitor economy through the Global West Midlands programme are to: o Enhance the profile & reputation of the region o Create & sustain vibrant destinations The appointed supplier(s) will take on the role of West Midlands Growth Company's strategic partner and marketing agency to deliver campaigns and assets for Visitor Economy in the following LOTs; o Domestic marketing campaign (LOT 1) o International marketing campaign (LOT 2) o Assets and collateral (LOT 3) which will result in increased awareness of the region's diverse tourism offer and destinations, increasing positive sentiment towards the region, and ultimately the consideration to visit. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

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. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

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 Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

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. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION Please note this is not a contract opportunity at this stage 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. Current marketing collateral for strategic real estate propositions are usually limited to a specific local authority pdf document, which are text heavy, static and quickly outdated. WMGC's proposed platform will provide a live and interactive method of presenting complex information in map and text based form. This will be supported by concise data and commentary and is constantly evolving to provide prospective investors with accurate up-to-date information. We also need to explore how we can build in automated reporting metrics for what is being looked at, by who, etc and how this can integrate into our current CRM system, Zoho. The final outcome of this project is the production of a digital mapping platform which acts as the region's leading investment promotional tool for strategic real estate sites within the West Midlands (the local authority areas of the seven constituent members of the WMCA and Warwickshire) which require an investor(s) in the form of capital investors, development or delivery partners and/or an occupier(s) in order for the schemes to be developed or completed schemes to become occupied. This will be a high-profile market facing tool with a level of scrutiny from our shareholders over continually changing content that needs a high-quality look, feel and functionality. It will need to align to investment priorities of the West Midlands region and government led initiatives nationally. The DMP's aim is to provide an easily accessible and interactive piece of promotional marketing collateral Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

The West Midlands Growth Company is seeking to establish a framework agreement via this tender process, appointing multiple suppliers across each of the Lots. The aim of this project is to create a suite of capable suppliers who can deliver a range of specialist, consultancy services across all the key business areas within the West Midlands Growth Company during the term including, but not limited to Inward Investment, Capital Attraction, Strategic Research and Evaluation. Service providers appointed to the framework will be assessed during the procurement process for their financial stability, track record, experience and technical & professional ability. This tender has been divided into five Lots and potential suppliers may bid for one or multiple Lots dependant on their business capabilities. There are no restrictions on the number of Lots that a Tenderer can bid for or be awarded. WMGC intends to appoint multiple suppliers to each Lot and this will be based on the highest scoring tenders for that Lot. Further details on the number of suppliers can be found in Section 2.1 In the event that fewer tenderers apply for a Lot than is included in the table below, WMGC will evaluate all compliant tenderers for the Lot. If any tender response is scored a "0" against any of the award criteria, this will result in the tender being excluded from this process. WMCG reserves the right not to award for any or all Lots of this framework. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) has a requirement to establish an agreement with up to three suppliers to provide specialist marketing and lead generation support for the requirements included in the scope of this tender process. With strong economic fundamentals in place, the West Midlands has a unique opportunity to establish itself as truly globally competitive in the coming years. Global West Midlands - the West Midlands Growth Company's business plan for July 2023 - March 25 - sets out how we propose to utilise our key functional areas of inward investment, capital attraction, the visitor economy and strategic relationship management to address regional challenges and capitalise on our opportunities, delivering the Plan for Growth and levelling up the region: The strategic objectives for the visitor economy through the Global West Midlands programme are to: Enhance the profile & reputation of the region Create & sustain vibrant destinations The appointed supplier(s) will take on the role of West Midlands Growth Company's strategic partner and marketing agency to deliver campaigns and lead generation for the West Midlands Business Tourism (MICE) sector which will result in increased awareness of the region's diverse offer, venues and destinations, increasing positive sentiment towards the region, and ultimately the consideration to host an event. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

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. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

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. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

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. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

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. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

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. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

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. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

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. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) has a requirement to establish an agreement with a sole supplier to provide specialist marketing and lead generation support for the requirements included in the scope of this tender process. With strong economic fundamentals in place, the West Midlands has a unique opportunity to cement itself as truly globally competitive in the coming years. Global West Midlands - the West Midlands Growth Company's business plan for July 23 - March 25 - sets out how we propose to utilise our key functional areas of inward investment, capital attraction, the visitor economy and strategic relationship management to address regional challenges and capitalise on our opportunities, delivering the Plan for Growth and levelling up the region, and shares that the strategic objectives for the visitor economy through the Global West Midlands programme are to: o Enhance the profile & reputation of the region o Create & sustain vibrant destinations The appointed supplier for this contract will be our strategic partner in creating and delivering a marketing campaign to build and develop awareness of our Business Events product across the West Midlands (not just Birmingham). The key indicators of success will be increased awareness of the region's offer, venues and destinations, resulting in an increased number of leads and enquiries for venue and events spaces through our business tourism (Convention Bureau) team. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

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. Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

Description of Requirement The purpose of this procurement process is to appoint a sole supplier who can provide stand design and build services (including AV) prior to and during the West Midlands' attendance at UKREiiF 2025. Stand design, build & AV The areas of work and responsibility for the appointed agency will comprise of pre, during and post event elements as outlined below. The project is seeking to appoint an organisation who can provide stand design and build services prior to, during and post the West Midlands' attendance at UKREiiF 2025 and to provide all AV and equipment for the event. Stand design & build for 200sqm pavilion - This should include the following spaces and functions: a) Reception desk b) Meeting area (both open and private spaces) c) Events theatre area (stage sufficiently sized for lectern and up to 6 chairs for panel sessions) d) Networking area e) Caf?/Bar f) TBC if required in 2025 - dedicated exhibition space for three of our local authority partners (Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton) who all need to have their own logos/branding incorporated Please note: We will be procuring separately a supplier to provide the physical marquee structure. This procurement is currently underway, but the successful company appointed here will need to work with the marquee supplier in planning and delivering this event. The stand design should allow for a business lounge feel whilst offering flexibility of use. The areas of work and responsibility for the appointed agency will comprise of pre, during and post event elements as outlined below: 1. Project Management: To construct and manufacture the physical space within the West Midlands Pavilion, reporting directly on site both pre and during the event. 2. Design & Construction Materials: Working to WMGC's brief to produce pavilion design and artwork to create a high finish internal fit-out working to strict brand guidelines both pre and during the event. 3. Audio Visual: To provide, install and manage-onsite all technical requirements both pre and during the event. 4. Health & Safety: To produce all safety documentation as required by Built Environment Networking (BEN), the show organisers, in relation to the build, any fixtures and fittings, and use of the structure pre, during and post the event. 5. Snagging: Ability to resolve any issues that might arise on site; either pre-event or during relating to the build and finish both pre and during the event. 6. Transport, Workshop Facilities & Logistics: Transport of items required for the pavilion build to Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, UK pre, during and post the event. 7. Breakdown & stand disposal: Dismantling and disposal of the stand post the event. Outputs: 1. Project Management: o To advise on, manufacture and construct the physical space within the West Midlands Pavilion, working in conjunction with WMGC ... Additional information: Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No