Published date: 10 July 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 28 July 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines - 22200000

  • Newspapers - 22210000

  • Multimedia networks - 32417000

    • Multimedia software package - 48520000

    • Advertising and marketing services - 79340000

    • Advertising services - 79341000

Location of contract

B4 7WB

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

QU077

Published date

10 July 2017

Closing date

28 July 2017

Contract start date

1 September 2017

Contract end date

31 August 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Birmingham City Council requires a supplier for the provision of Media Monitoring.

Birmingham City Council is looking for a supplier to provide daily media monitoring service of relevant press cuttings from the national press, regional press, trade and consumer press, broadcast, online
and social media coverage. This coverage needs to be in the form of a daily e-mail alert or a web portal and be accessible by a limited number of council employees.

There is also a requirement for the software / web site to be able evaluate each article for positivity (either by the supplier or in-house by Birmingham City Council) and Advertising Equivalent Value (and
alternative measures used by the industry) and the ability to produce reports on this data.

We are also interested in any journalist database lists and forward planning tools which may also be part the media monitoring package and any new services / developments in the media monitoring
industry.

This contract will be for a period of 2 years commencing 1st September 2017 until 31st August 2019 with an option to extend for a further 2 years subject to satisfactory performance.

BCC will be using its e-tendering system (in-tend) for the administration of this procurement process and providers must register with the system to be able to express an interest. The web address is: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc Registration and use of In-tend is free. All correspondence for this procurement process must be via the In-tend correspondence function. If you are unable to register with In-tend please either email cps@birmingham.gov.uk or call 0121 464 8000.

If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Councils tender Portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc/ and submit your details to register as a bidder. We will send you a log on and password so you can download the selection questionnaire. Requests to participate must be by way of completion and return of the selection questionnaire no later than 12:00 hours (GMT) on 28th July 2017 using the Supplier Portal.

More information

Links

Additional text

If you are interested in tendering please click on the following link to access Birmingham City Council's tender Portal.

Delivery Notes

Birmingham

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Michael Tovey

Address

10 Woodcock Street
Birmingham
West Midlands
B4 7WB
United Kingdom

Telephone

0121 303 2038

Email

michael.tovey@birmingham.gov.uk