Published date: 11 February 2020
Last edited date: 8 July 2020
This notice was replaced on 9 June 2021
This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:
Awarded contract (published 9 June 2021)
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.
Contract summary
Industry
Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security - 79000000
Location of contract
OX1 1SA
Value of contract
£30,000 to £75,000
Procurement reference
OxLEP PR-1
Published date
11 February 2020
Closing date
23 July 2020
Contract start date
1 August 2020
Contract end date
31 March 2022
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (below threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
We are delighted to announce an exciting opportunity for a PR and public affairs agency to team-up with the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership.
This is a 20-month opportunity, which will be reviewed at the end of the financial year 2020/21 (end of March 2021).
On 10 February this year, we launched a tender opportunity for a PR/public affairs agency to work alongside OxLEP for a two-year period. This opportunity was closed on 6 March and a number of agencies were shortlisted for consideration on 11 March.
As a direct result of the COVID-19, we took the decision on 19 March to suspend the original recruitment process and advised all shortlisted agencies of this step.
Since this suspension, it has become very apparent that some areas of support outlined in the original tender document needed to be significantly refined. Therefore, we have taken the decision to coordinate a new recruitment process, based against an updated tender document and we will reopen this opportunity to the wider market.
We welcome applications from all PR and public affairs agencies that meet the specified selection criteria.
Interested agencies or parties should submit tender responses no later than Thursday 23 July at 5pm. All key dates are outlined in the below tender document.
Agencies are welcome to contact OxLEP for a discussion regarding this project prior to the submission deadline. Please contact Rob Panting, Communications Manager at OxLEP, via: 07748 333402 or email: robert.panting@oxfordshirelep.com. To ensure equal treatment - where clarification is sought on anything in relation to this tender document - we will promptly make the information available to all potential bidders too though a set of FAQs.
More information
Links
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- https://www.oxfordshirelep.com/news/article/tender-opportunity-oxlep-pr-and-public-affairs
- Tender notice
- Tender document
About the buyer
Contact name
Rob Panting
Address
Jericho Building- Activate Learn Oxpens Road
Oxford
OX11SA
England
Telephone
07748 333402
robert.panting@oxfordshirelep.com
Website
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