Published date: 29 August 2018

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


Closing: 2 July 2018

Contract summary

Industry

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    • Event services - 79952000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£215,000

Procurement reference

DN345136

Published date

29 August 2018

Closing date

2 July 2018

Contract start date

13 August 2018

Contract end date

12 August 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure (above threshold)

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

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

This is an accelerated procedure.

Justification

This procurement is being carried out in accordance with the Accelerated Restricted Procedure as set out in Regulation 28 (10) of the Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) 2015. The justification by the Authority for implementation of Clause 10 of Regulation 28 is that due to the machinery of Government Changes, there has been significant impact on the initial long-term solution. An interim solution was originally planned, however, it did not meet the security requirements necessary for a Government platform of this nature. As a result this has added an unforeseen urgency to the procurement of this Contract.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The Department for International Trade's (DIT's) Events Team in the Marketing and Communications Directorate require an Events Management Platform to manage some of the nearly two thousand (2000) events that it produces or attends annually. DIT has a current events platform, however the contract is due to expire, and will no longer be used. The new platform needs to be a single, cloud-based platform that makes it easier for potential attendees to organically find out about DIT's events; improves the quality and completeness of events data; and increases the efficiency of events management.

The Contract is expected to commence in August 2018, with a transition period of eight (8) weeks. The Service Commencement date of the new platform is currently estimated as 8.10.2018.

Stage 1 is expected to be published on 15.6.2018. The deadline will be 2.7.2018.

Stage 2 is expected to be published on 6.7.2018. The deadline will be 16.7.2018.

The competition will be run via DIT's e-tendering portal ProContract, which any interested party must register for to participate from Stage 1 onwards. The reference to search for once registered is DN345136

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Provision of an Events Management Platform

  • Opportunity
  • Published 15 June 2018

Attachments

Links

Additional text

The Contract Notice published in OJEU is under the reference: 2018/S 112-255060

A PIN was also published under reference: 2018/S 108-246047

Any interested parties that would like to participate in the Stage 1 Clarification Question and Answer Teleconference on 19.06.2018 at 12:00hrs (GMT) should email the contact for this notice and request joining details.

Stage 1 of the procurement is due to be published and open for submissions at 12:00hrs on Friday 15th June 2018

Award information

Awarded date

16 August 2018

Contract start date

20 August 2018

Contract end date

19 August 2020

Total value of contract

£214,998.92

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Aventri (UK) Ltd

Address

3 Queens Road
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 3AR

Reference

Companies House number: 07636907

Value of contract

£214,998.92

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Will Medici

Address

Windsor House, 50 Victoria Street
LONDON
SW1A 0TL
England

Telephone

07741186925

Email

will.medici@trade.gov.uk

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-trade