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2013-AP-MEDIA-02 Marketing Birmingham media buying agency.

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Marketing Birmingham
Baskerville House, Centenary Square, Broad Street
For the attention of: Katie Bentley
B1 2ND Birmingham
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1212025029
E-mail:
Fax: +44 1212025116

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority: www.marketingbirmingham.com/tenders

Address of the buyer profile: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/marketingbirmingham/aspx/Tenders/Current

Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)

Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: Marketing Birmingham
Baskerville House, Centenary Square, Broad Street
For the attention of: Katie Bentley
B1 2ND Birmingham
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1212025029
E-mail:
Fax: +44 1212025116
Internet address: www.marketingbirmingham.com/tenders

I.2)Type of the contracting authority
Other: Marketing Birmingham Limited (A Company Limited by Guarantee)
I.3)Main activity
Other: Marketing
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
2013-AP-MEDIA-02 Marketing Birmingham media buying agency.
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Services
Service category No 27: Other services

NUTS code UKG31

II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
The notice involves a public contract
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Marketing Birmingham is conducting a procurement exercise to appoint a media buying agency until March 2016. The contract will be used to fulfill media buying for the company and specifically for the European Regional Development Funded (ERDF) Projects, which involves the following partners: Marketing Birmingham, Visit England, Visit Britain, The Association of Black Country Authorities Consortium, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, Birmingham Airport, Dance Xchange and Southside BID.

To register your interest and access full tender documents, visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/marketingbirmingham/aspx/Home

II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

79341400, 79341100

II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes
II.1.8)Lots
This contract is divided into lots: no
II.1.9)Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: yes
II.2)Quantity or scope of the contract
II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
Marketing Birmingham reserves the right to split each contract and its value and award different elements to multiple suppliers.
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 0,01 and 2 400 000 GBP
II.2.2)Information about options
Options: no
II.2.3)Information about renewals
II.3)Duration of the contract or time limit for completion
Starting 4.11.2013. Completion 31.3.2016

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1)Conditions relating to the contract
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:
Contained in contract.
III.1.3)Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:
III.1.4)Other particular conditions
The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: yes
Description of particular conditions: The contract will include break clauses. Performance reviews will take place throughout the contract. The contract is subject to the continuation of European Regional funding.
III.2)Conditions for participation
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Criteria for scoring tenders of 2013-AP-MEDIA-02 is detailed within the tender document which can be viewed https://in-tendhost.co.uk/marketingbirmingham/aspx/Home

III.2.3)Technical capacity
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:

Criteria for scoring tenders of 2013-AP-MEDIA-02 is detailed within the tender document which can be viewed https://in-tendhost.co.uk/marketingbirmingham/aspx/Hom

III.2.4)Information about reserved contracts
III.3)Conditions specific to services contracts
III.3.1)Information about a particular profession
Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: no
III.3.2)Staff responsible for the execution of the service
Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: no

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
Open
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue
IV.2)Award criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
An electronic auction will be used: no
IV.3)Administrative information
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
2013-AP-MEDIA-02
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
no
IV.3.3)Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document
Payable documents: no
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
14.10.2013 - 12:00
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
English.
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
IV.3.8)Conditions for opening of tenders

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: no
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: yes
Reference to project(s) and/or programme(s): This contract is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Investing in the City Region ERDF project, managed by Marketing Birmingham.
VI.3)Additional information
VI.4)Procedures for appeal
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures
VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: We will incorporate a standstill period as per European guidelines, at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period which will be for 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

Marketing Birmingham
Baskerville House, Centenary Square, Broad Street
B1 2ND Birmingham
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:
Telephone: +44 1212025029

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
21.8.2013