Published date: 4 February 2016

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: 24 February 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

EC1N 2ST

Value of contract

£40,000 to £60,000

Procurement reference

P/REF 00000342

Published date

4 February 2016

Closing date

24 February 2016

Contract start date

8 March 2016

Contract end date

18 July 2016

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Historic England is the government's expert advisory service for England's historic environment. Each year Historic England produce and publish an annual survey of the state of England's historic environment entitled Heritage Counts on behalf of the Historic Environment Forum (HEF). Heritage Counts explores the social and economic role of the historic environment and focuses on a different theme. The theme of Heritage Counts 2016 will be Heritage and Place-making.

We wish to commission research on the role of heritage in place making.
Due to the breadth of this subject area, we are keen to focus the research on a specific aspect of place making in practice. We propose that the research should focus on the use of heritage in place branding in Business Improvement District's (BID's). We are open to alternative suggestions.
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The key research questions are:
1. What is place branding and what is the value of place branding? Is heritage a suitable element of place branding?
2. How and to what extent are Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) involved in place branding? How is heritage used in BIDs' place branding and place making strategies? What is the added value of heritage?
3. How can places [better] use heritage in place making and specifcally place branding?

The precise methodology for conducting the research will be for the consultant team to agree with Historic England, as project lead. In order to help respondents to this ITT scope the volume of work against costs, Historic England has set aside an indicative budget of £40,000 to £60,000 including VAT for this research. We encourage partnerships and collaborative working.

The resulting research must be robust and credible for use when advocating the value of heritage to those outside the sector e.g. local authorities, business leaders, government departments. We want the research to provide up to date evidence, outlining innovative ways of thinking about heritage in place. By thinking creatively about dissemination we want this research to reach a wide audience.

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Documents to be returned with Tender
1. Form of tender
2. Fully completed section 2.
3. Completed priced schedule ( 2.4)
4. Tender Proposal and Response to brief as per evaluation criteria
5. Signed FOI statement (3.1)
6. Signed statement of non collusion (3.2)


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About the buyer

Contact name

Adala Leeson

Address

1 Waterhouse Square
138 - 142 Holborn
London
EC1N 2ST
United Kingdom

Telephone

02079 733 840

Email

Adala.Leeson@english-heritage.org.uk

Website

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/historic-england/aspx/Home