Published date: 16 September 2020

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: 16 October 2020, 3pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Cultural event organisation services - 79952100

  • Festival organisation services - 79953000

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£100,000

Procurement reference

FES.CPR.RND.RND02.001

Published date

16 September 2020

Closing date

16 October 2020

Closing time

3pm

Contract start date

16 November 2020

Contract end date

31 December 2022

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Negotiated procedure without prior publication (above threshold)

The opportunity was not advertised, because for example only one supplier is capable of delivering the requirement, or due to extreme urgency brought about by unforeseen events.

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Festival UK* 2022 is a major nationwide celebration of creativity and innovation.

The Festival will take place across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales throughout 2022. It will deliver a programme of ground-breaking artistic commissions with the ambition of reaching millions; achieving the projects two objectives of bringing people together and promoting the UK's creativity to the world.

Festival 2022 Ltd, has been established to curate, manage and promote the Festival; working with Strategic Delivery Bodies within each nation to devise and deliver the programme.

2022 is a major year in the cultural life of the UK as we host the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, mark the 100th anniversary of the BBC, and celebrate HM The Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

The Festival has announced this R&D Project to identify Creative Teams from across Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics.

Teams must have a Lead Organisation and consist of 3-8 team members. This opportunity is to secure an R&D Commissioning Contract with a value of up to £100,000 for teams to imagine and design a potential artistic commission for the Festival.

Festival 2022 Ltd will contract with Lead Organisations on award, and those individual Lead Organisations will sub-contract with their team members.

The R&D Project (inclusive of the 30 R&D Commissioning Contracts) is stage one of a two-stage commissioning process; from which up to ten large-scale artistic projects for 2022 will be commissioned. The 30 R&D Project outputs will be assessed in February 2021 against defined criteria to identify the ten commissioning to take forwards to the stage two of commissioning under a Full Artistic Commissioning Agreement.

These ten commissions will be the Festival's artistic programme.

Four of the ten commissions will each be led by England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Each nation has a Strategic Delivery Body: (England - Festival 2022 Ltd, Scotland - VisitScotland / EventScotland, Wales - Creative Wales, Northern Ireland - TBC).

For these four commissions, Festival 2022 Ltd will be the contracting authority for the R&D Agreement (with the Strategic Delivery Body as a named party). The Strategic Delivery Body will then enter into the Full Artistic Commissioning Agreement with the Lead Organisation at stage two.

The remaining six commissions will be driven by Creative Teams from across the UK and will be the sole responsibility of Festival 2022 Ltd.

All ten commissions will be global in reach.

The value of the final ten commissions will be defined by the output of the R&D Project. The Festival's overall budget is £120million across the four nations.

The Festival will demonstrate the vital and inspirational role that creativity can play in our changing world. This investment comes at a time of particular need for sectors impacted by the global pandemic and will support the creation of work and jobs.

Visit festival2022.uk for further information.

More information

Attachments

About the buyer

Contact name

Festival UK* 2022

Address

One Brindley Place
Birmingham
B12JB
England

Email

team@festival2022.uk

Website

www.festival2022.uk