Published date: 26 January 2018

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 19 July 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Education and training services - 80000000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£0 to £465,943

Procurement reference

RD1001101

Published date

26 January 2018

Closing date

19 July 2017

Contract start date

19 September 2017

Contract end date

31 January 2018

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other: Framework Agreement

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

A contract for Event Marketing Solutions Ltd. (EMS) to deliver the Student Finance Tour 2017. EMS will deliver a seven-week programme of presentations at schools, sixth forms and colleges across England, to provide 16-18 year olds (and their parents/carers) with the facts about higher education (HE) student finance, and inspiration to consider progressing to this level of study. The Tour will run from 30 October to 15 December 2017, and will aim to reach c. 96,000 attendees (84,000 pupils/12,000 parents) across a total of 1,330 events.Presentations will be delivered by a team of approx. 30 graduate presenters. EMS will manage and deliver all aspects of the Tour programme, including but not limited to: hiring, managing and paying the team of presenters; designing and printing all accompanying materials; contacting and arranging bookings with schools, sixth forms and colleges; all elements of tour logistics (van hire, IT and presentation equipment, mobile phones for graduate presenters, hotel bookings for overnight stays etc.) administering questionnaires to all Tour attendees (students, parents and teachers); providing weekly updates to DfE on progress towards meeting attendance targets; and providing a summary report and cleansed datasets to DfE at the end of the Tour including performance against targets and analysis of the questionnaire results.

Award information

Awarded date

19 August 2017

Contract start date

19 September 2017

Contract end date

31 January 2018

Total value of contract

£465,943

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Event Marketing Solutions Ltd

Address

The Refinery, South Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, CH65 4LE, UNITED KINGDOM

Reference

Companies House number: 4083556

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Lisa McKenzie

Address

Piccadilly Gate
Store Street
Manchester
M1 2WD
England

Email

Lisa.McKenzie@education.gov.uk