Provision of inspection, registration and classification for the registered and listed sectors
Fáilte Ireland is the National Tourism Development Authority, established by the Irish Government in May 2003 to guide and promote the development of tourism as a leading indigenous component of the Irish economy. To this end, Fáilte Ireland, working in partnership with the tourism industry, provides an extensive range of support services and business solutions designed specifically to develop and sustain Ireland as a high-quality and competitive tourism destination.
Fáilte Ireland works in partnership with Tourism Ireland (who promote Ireland as a holiday destination to overseas markets) and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (responsible for tourism development and marketing in Northern Ireland). It also leads an extensive domestic holiday campaign via ‘Discover Ireland,’ which features comprehensive information and listings for Irish accommodation, activities, events, tourist attractions and Irish holiday special offers.
Fáilte Ireland works with the tourism industry in areas including business support, enterprise development, training and education, research, marketing and regional development. With a dedicated team working across six regions, Fáilte Ireland offers tourism professionals and service providers a wide range of support services.
Under Irish law, Fáilte Ireland’s role in quality assurance means that it has certain responsibilities in relation to the listing, registration and grading of Irish tourist accommodation, including the facility to appoint a contractor to carry out those tasks under Fáilte Ireland supervision, guided by criteria determined by Fáilte Ireland.
Tenders are now being sought from external parties to operate a national quality assurance framework which will embrace, initially, the statutory role and, shortly afterwards, the listed role (Non-Statutory). This will include assessment of, and related visits to, properties that are participating in the national quality assurance framework (or wish to). The work will also ensure that a seamless web based interface will exist (both from customer and organisational perspective) to optimise registration, listing, assessment, delisting and cancellation, resolution and reporting of consumer & trade complaints, and system administration and integration in the national quality assurance framework.
For full details please see the request for tender document available for downloading from the Irish Government's Procurement web site
www.etenders.gov.ie.
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=473012.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2012-08-27.
The procurement was published on 2012-07-25.
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Procurement history
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| 2012-07-25
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Contract notice
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| 2012-08-09
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Additional information
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