DoF - International Fund for Ireland - Public Relations Services and Website Services

Concepts

• public relations
• belfast
• public relations management
• consultancy services
• website services
• northern ireland
• ireland - public relations services
• ireland
• dof - international fund
• the international fund

Location

Northern Ireland:

Description

The International Fund for Ireland requires a Supplier to provide a comprehensive public relations service to its Board of the Fund. The Fund’s latest Annual Report can be accessed on the Fund’s website www.internationalfundforireland.com. The service to be provided must cover strategic communication as well as operational communication. In addition, the Supplier will be required to host, maintain and support the Fund’s website which also has a secure members area. It should be borne in mind that, while the Fund is a single, integrated, international organisation which focuses most of its activity on the twelve northern counties of the island of Ireland, it has an office in Belfast which covers activities in Northern Ireland and an office in Dublin which covers activities in the six Southern border counties.

Renewal Options

Two options to extend of up to 12 months each.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 79416000 - Public relations services
• 79416100 - Public relations management services
• 79416200 - Public relations consultancy services
• 79430000 - Crisis management services
• 72413000 - World wide web (www) site design services
• 72415000 - World wide web (www) site operation host services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are available.

Other Information

The Supplier will be required to provide services to the Fund in both jurisdictions and this contract is, therefore, in respect of the Fund’s PR requirements North and South. The Supplier must deliver the following throughout the lifetime of the contract: Website Hosting, Content Management, Support and Maintenance contract and any website redesign. ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The figure indicated in Section II 1.5 represents an estimated contract value. This value reflects the potential scale of the contract, however, neither CPD nor the Authority can provide any guarantee as to the level of business under this contract. The Contracting Authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. Economic Operators remain responsible for all costs and expenses incurred by them or by any third party acting under instructions from the Economic Operator in connection with taking part in this procurement process regardless of whether such costs arise as a consequence, directly or indirectly of any amendments made to the procurement documents by the Contracting Authority at any time. No legally binding contract shall arise (and an Economic Operator shall. have no legitimate expectation that a contract will be entered into) until such time as entry into the Contract has been confirmed by the. Contracting Authority. Economic Operators should note that all dates, time periods and figures in relation to values and volumes specified in this notice and the procurement documents are approximate only and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change any or all of them. The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach. satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If. this occurs. and their. performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Notice of unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the Notice.