Published date: 7 December 2017

This notice was replaced on 3 January 2021

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Awarded contract (published 3 January 2021)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Research services - 73110000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£0.01 to £6,000

Procurement reference

2017 - WMGC - R07

Published date

7 December 2017

Closing date

9 January 2018

Contract start date

15 January 2018

Contract end date

30 April 2018

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?

No

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 requirements of this contract are to quantify, via a statistical model that provides a robust indicative base, the economic impact of the visitor economy from both day and overnight visitors in terms of:
• Revenue generated by tourists (by category of accommodation and distribution by sectors by month);

• Number of tourists and number of tourist days (by category of accommodation by month);

• Employment supported by tourism;

• Traffic implications of tourism (by month);

• Trend information annually for all output categories by zone;

• Bed stock analysis (by accommodation category, month by month, year on year);

• Analysis of bed stock seasonal availability (by category of accommodation).
All suppliers must visit and register interest via the In-Tend system prior to submitting the tender.
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/marketingbirmingham/aspx/Home

About the buyer

Address

Baskerville House
Centenary Square, Broad Street
Birmingham
B1 2ND
England

Email

paul.jones@wmgrowth.com