Content commissioning agency services

Tourism Ireland

Tourism Ireland, the body responsible for marketing the island of Ireland overseas as a tourism destination, seeks the services of a central Content Commissioning Agency. The Content Commissioning Agency will be an over-arching agency that will manage all aspects of content sourcing and generation that Tourism Ireland will require for its online and offline promotional activities. The scope of this content will include (but is not be limited to) photography, print copy, web copy, video, music, social media content, face-book apps and Iphone and Ipad Apps.
Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders web site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=190392.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2011-02-21. The procurement was published on 2011-01-14.

Suppliers

The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:

• Maxmedia Ireland Limited

Who?

• Tourism Ireland

What?

Where?

• Éire/Ireland

Procurement history

Date	Document
2011-01-14	Contract notice
2012-01-13	Contract award notice

Contract notice (2011-01-14)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: printed matter and related products
Notice metadata
Original language: English 🗣️
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Services
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Printed matter and related products 📦

Procedure
Procedure type: Negotiated procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Postal address: 5th Floor - Bishop's Square, Redmond's Hill
Postal code: D2
Postal town: Dublin
Contact
Internet address: http://www.tourismireland.com 🌏
Phone: +353 14763400 📞
Fax: +353 14763666 📠

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2011-01-14 📅
Submission deadline: 2011-02-21 📅
Publication date: 2011-01-18 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2011/S 11-016899
OJ-S issue: 11
Additional information

Please refer to the Irish Public Procurement portal www.etenders.gov.ie to download the RTP documentation in support of this notice. Requests to participate must be submitted in hard copy and must be sent in clearly marked envelopes. Tourism Ireland cannot accept responsibility for applications that are lost or damaged in the post. Late applications will not be accepted. Applications by fax or by email will not be accepted. Tourism Ireland will not be responsible for costs, charges or expenses incurred by participants, whether or not a final contract is awarded. Tourism Ireland reserves the right to include content requirements on behalf of its partners under this contract. Tourism Ireland is subject to the provisions of the Code of Practice on Freedom of Information for North South Implementation Bodies and Tourism Ireland. Award of this contract will be subject to approval by the Board of Tourism Ireland. Award of this contract will be subject to selected candidate being qualified for the purposes of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, if based in Northern Ireland. Award of this contract will be subject to selected candidate obtaining a tax clearance certificate as required by the Irish Revenue Commissioners. The contract will be subject to Irish law. Tourism Ireland reserves the right without advance notice (and without giving reasons unless so required by law and without liability to the applicants) to amend or otherwise change the process or to terminate the process. This notice does not represent a commitment to enter into any contract(s). (ET Ref:190392).

Additional information

Please refer to the Irish Public Procurement portal www.etenders.gov.ie to download the RTP documentation in support of this notice.

Requests to participate must be submitted in hard copy and must be sent in clearly marked envelopes.

Tourism Ireland cannot accept responsibility for applications that are lost or damaged in the post.

Late applications will not be accepted. Applications by fax or by email will not be accepted.

Tourism Ireland will not be responsible for costs, charges or expenses incurred by participants, whether or not a final contract is awarded.

Tourism Ireland reserves the right to include content requirements on behalf of its partners under this contract.

Tourism Ireland is subject to the provisions of the Code of Practice on Freedom of Information for North South Implementation Bodies and Tourism Ireland.

Award of this contract will be subject to approval by the Board of Tourism Ireland.

Award of this contract will be subject to selected candidate being qualified for the purposes of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, if based in Northern Ireland.

Award of this contract will be subject to selected candidate obtaining a tax clearance certificate as required by the Irish Revenue Commissioners.

The contract will be subject to Irish law.

Tourism Ireland reserves the right without advance notice (and without giving reasons unless so required by law and without liability to the applicants) to amend or otherwise change the process or to terminate the process. This notice does not represent a commitment to enter into any contract(s).

(ET Ref:190392).

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:

Note: to register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the eTenders web site at http://www.etenders.gov.ie/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=190392.

Duration: 48 months
Reference number: CT-2011-CMA-1
Place of performance
Main site or place of performance: Island of Ireland.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: Candidates are referred to the conditions set out in the instructions document.
Economic and financial standing:

(1) All candidates will be required to provide a reference from their bank;

(2) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering the 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the candidate and the turnover in respect of the activities which are of a similar type to the subject matter of this notice;

(3) All candidates will be required to provide statements of accounts or extracts from those accounts relating to their business.

Contract execution
Deposits and guarantees required: N/a.
Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

A grouping, if successful, must contract as a single entity, having joint and several liability.

Names and professional qualifications of the staff ✅

Procedure
Duration of the framework agreement in years: 4
Envisaged number of candidates: 3
Date of dispatch of invitations: 2011-03-04 📅
Languages
Language: English 🗣️

Contracting authority
Identity
Awarding authority name: Tourism Ireland
Contact
Contact point: Hannah Hughes
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.etenders.gov.ie/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA01860 🌏
Name: Tourism Ireland
Postal address: Beresford House, 2 Beresford Road
Postal town: Coleraine
Postal code: BT52 1GE
Country: United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Contact point: Sylvia McKibbon
Phone: +44 2870359200 📞
URL for participation: http://www.tourismireland.com 🌏

Reference
Identifiers
Reference number attributed by the contracting authority: CT-2011-CMA-1
Additional information

Please refer to the Irish Public Procurement portal www.etenders.gov.ie to download the RTP documentation in support of this notice.

Requests to participate must be submitted in hard copy and must be sent in clearly marked envelopes.

Tourism Ireland cannot accept responsibility for applications that are lost or damaged in the post.

Late applications will not be accepted. Applications by fax or by email will not be accepted.

Tourism Ireland will not be responsible for costs, charges or expenses incurred by participants, whether or not a final contract is awarded.

Tourism Ireland reserves the right to include content requirements on behalf of its partners under this contract.

Tourism Ireland is subject to the provisions of the Code of Practice on Freedom of Information for North South Implementation Bodies and Tourism Ireland.

Award of this contract will be subject to approval by the Board of Tourism Ireland.

Award of this contract will be subject to selected candidate…

… being qualified for the purposes of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, if based in Northern Ireland.

… obtaining a tax clearance certificate as required by the Irish Revenue Commissioners.

The contract will be subject to Irish law.

Tourism Ireland reserves the right without advance notice (and without giving reasons unless so required by law and without liability to the applicants) to amend or otherwise change the process or to terminate the process. This notice does not represent a commitment to enter into any contract(s).

(ET Ref:190392).

Source: OJS 2011/S 011-016899 (2011-01-14)

Contract award notice (2012-01-13)
Object
Notice metadata
Document type: Contract award notice

Procedure
Type of bid: Not applicable

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2012-01-13 📅
Publication date: 2012-01-18 📅
Identifiers
Notice number: 2012/S 11-016431
Refers to notice: 2011/S 11-016899
Additional information

This tender process is now complete and a contract has been awarded. (ET Ref:366292).

Procedure
Award criteria
Criterion: 1. Cost of elements of interim work programme (50)
2. Breadown of annual management fee based on level of oversight of outsourced suppliers (presented as a % of cost) (25)
3. Management of the interim work programme (25)

Award of contract
Date of contract conclusion: 2011-08-08 📅
Name: Maxmedia Ireland Limited
Postal address: The Courtyard, 20E Castle Street, County Dublin
Postal town: Dalkey
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Internet address: www.maxmedia.ie 🌏
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 4
Source: OJS 2012/S 011-016431 (2012-01-13)

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