Sector Research

Published date: 6 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: 24 July 2017

Contract summary

Industry

Research services - 73110000
Research and development consultancy services - 73200000
Design and execution of research and development - 73300000

Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£0.01 to £100,000

Procurement reference

2017-WMGC-R03

Published date

6 July 2017

Closing date

24 July 2017

Contract start date

7 August 2017

Contract end date

31 October 2017

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?

Description

The West Midlands Growth Company (WMGC) will help to create new jobs, expand existing businesses and attract new businesses and investment to the region, aligned to the ambitions set out in the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) Strategic Economic Plan.

Formerly Marketing Birmingham, the company was established in April 2017. It continues to operate leisure and business tourism programmes Visit and Meet Birmingham, inward investment programme Business Birmingham and its partnership programme.

The WMGC has been established in partnership with Local Enterprise Partnerships, local authorities, Growth Hubs, universities and a wide range of businesses across the private sector. It focuses its core activities across Greater Birmingham and Solihull, Coventry and Warwickshire and the Black Country, with the potential and scope to deliver services in a wider Midlands context.

The WMGC is owned by the WMCA, its Constituent Members and Universities, with governance that heavily involves the private sector in the majority. Its core WMCA and local authority funding will be used to attract significant additional funding from the private sector and other sources, such as future Devolution Deals.

It has been decided not to divide this contract into lots. This is because splitting into lots would necessarily involve a great deal of preparatory research and client liaison for each Lot which would generate unnecessary duplication of effort and introduce inefficiencies with regard time and cost.

The main objective of the project is the development of a new inward investment strategy which will underpin the company's business plan for the WMCA region. For this tender, the WMCA region refers to the 3 LEP geography of the Black Country, Greater Birmingham and Solihull and Coventry and Warwickshire LEPs. The research project will provide the WMGC with the relevant and high-quality information necessary to select key sectors for inward investment and help promote the WMCA region to potential investors.

Please refer to the tender brief for full requirements, process and timescales. To access the full tender brief, all suppliers MUST visit the Marketing Birmingham e-Procurement system to register interest and submit a tender bid.

e-Procurement https://in-tendhost.co.uk/marketingbirmingham/aspx/Home

Please note the deadline for full submission as outlined in the attached brief is no later than 12:00 noon BST on Monday 24th July 2017.

More information

Additional text: To access the tender brief, all suppliers MUST visit the West Midlands Growth Company (formally Marketing Birmingham) e-Procurement system. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/marketingbirmingham/aspx/Home

About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement Manaer

Address

Baskerville House, 2 Centenary Square
Broad Street
Birmingham, West Midlands
B13 0NX
England

Telephone

0121 202 5115

Email

jazz.bansal@marketingbirmingham.com