Published date: 13 February 2019

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


Closing: 3 December 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research services - 73110000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£62,500

Procurement reference

tender_193924/746361

Published date

13 February 2019

Closing date

3 December 2018

Contract start date

1 January 2019

Contract end date

31 January 2021

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

In 2017 the Arts Council invested £3 million into round two of the Cultural Destinations fund. The Cultural Destinations fund round two (2017-2020), builds on the learnings from round one (2014-2017). Cultural Destinations is an initiative between Arts Council England and Visit England, the national tourist board. The aim of Cultural Destinations is to enable arts and culture organisations working in partnership with destination organisations to increase their reach, engagement and resilience through working with the tourism sector. Closer working between the two sectors will contribute to the economic growth of the cultural and tourism visitor economies.

This programme will support the positioning of culture as a prominent part of the local visitor offer, helping to drive the growth of the visitor economy. Cultural Destinations aims to build partnership capacity in the cultural and visitor economy sectors to achieve the following outcomes:
- More and different types of people experiencing the arts and culture in local destinations in a way that contributes to the growth of the local visitor economy
- Increased income leading to greater sustainability and resilience for cultural organisations and tourism businesses in local destinations
- Repositioning of culture as a prominent part of the visitor offer and local economic growth plans
- A commitment from public and private sector partners to continue working in partnership to support the growth of the local visitor economy through cultural tourism beyond the life of this project.

The Arts Council England and Visit England are commissioning an external evaluation of round two of the Cultural Destinations Fund to assess the fund against the above outcomes. Each Cultural Destinations area is required to undertake an individual evaluation of their work towards these outcomes. Our aim for the evaluation is to ensure the area evaluations can be brought together along with some primary research to provide programme-level evidence of Cultural Destinations' contribution overall to its aims. We would also like to highlight key learnings from round 2, and inform future place based strategic funds.

Award information

Awarded date

14 December 2018

Contract start date

1 January 2019

Contract end date

31 January 2021

Total value of contract

£62,497.75

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

SQW Limited

Address

43 Chalton Street, London NW1 1JD, United Kingdom

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Zobair Mehmood

Address

21 Bloomsbury St, Bloomsbury,
London
WC1B 3HF
England

Telephone

0161 934 4495

Email

procurement.services@artscouncil.org.uk

Website

www.artscouncil.org.uk