Digital Content Strategy and Content Production Services to the Creative Ireland Programme

Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Services to support delivery of the Creative Ireland Programme’s citizen engagement and communications plan including curation and production of all web and digital assets including videos, digital promos (VoD), photography, blogs and newsletters:
— copywriting and image sourcing for web and social media,
— development and implementation of a social media strategy (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram).

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2019-03-08. The procurement was published on 2019-02-04.

Suppliers
The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
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Procurement history
Date Document
2019-02-04 Contract notice
2019-05-10 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2019-02-04)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
National registration number: N/a
Postal address: 23 Kildare Street
Postal town: Dublin 2
Postal code: D02 TD30
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Contact person: John Knightly
Phone: +353 16313917 📞
E-mail: john.knightly@cultureireland.gov.ie 📧
Region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
URL: https://creative.ireland.ie/en 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/1968 🌏
Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
Communication
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=141634&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏
Participation URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=141634&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE 🌏

Object
Scope of the procurement
Title:
“Digital Content Strategy and Content Production Services to the Creative Ireland Programme CIP/2019/PRO/2”
Products/services: Design consultancy services 📦
Short description:
“Services to support delivery of the Creative Ireland Programme’s citizen engagement and communications plan including curation and production of all web and...”    Show more
Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 140 000 💰

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Additional products/services: Advertising services 📦
Place of performance: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
Main site or place of performance: Dublin
Description of the procurement:
“Services to support delivery of the Creative Ireland Programme’s citizen engagement and communications plan including curation and production of all web and...”    Show more
Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value excluding VAT: EUR 140 000 💰
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 12
Additional information: All relevant information is contained in the RFT.

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
List and brief description of conditions: All relevant information is contained in RFT.
Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
Conditions related to the contract
Contract performance conditions: All relevant information is contained in RFT.
Information about staff responsible for the performance of the contract
Obligation to indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff assigned to performing the contract

Procedure
Type of procedure
Open procedure
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2019-03-08 12:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Tender must be valid until: 2019-06-08 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders: 2019-03-08 12:00 📅
Conditions for opening of tenders (place): Dublin
Conditions for opening of tenders (Information about authorised persons and opening procedure): Officials of the Department.

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Eddie Forsyth
Postal address: Department of Rural and Community Development
Postal town: 10-11 Leinster Street South, Dublin 2
Postal code: D02 EF85
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 761064900 📞
E-mail: eddie.forsyth@drcd.gov.ie 📧
URL: http://drcd.gov.ie 🌏
Source: OJS 2019/S 026-058093 (2019-02-04)
Contract award notice (2019-05-10)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 2
Phone: +353 16755638 📞
E-mail: john.knightly@chg.gov.ie 📧

Object
Scope of the procurement
Short description:
“Services to support delivery of the Creative Ireland Programme’s citizen engagement and communications plan including curation and production of all web and...”    Show more
Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT): EUR 140 000 💰
Description
Main site or place of performance: Dublin.
Description of the procurement:
“Services to support delivery of the Creative Ireland Programme’s citizen engagement and communications plan including curation and production of all web and...”    Show more
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Ability to fully meet the Creative Ireland Programme tender requirements
Quality criterion (weighting): 20
Quality criterion (name): Creative expertise
Quality criterion (name): Experience and track record of excellence in digital services
Quality criterion (name): Project management
Quality criterion (weighting): 10
Quality criterion (name): Audience development
Price (weighting): 20

Procedure
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2019/S 026-058093
Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice
The contracting authority will not award any further contracts based on the above prior information notice

Award of contract

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Contract Number: 1
Title:
“Digital Content Strategy and Content Production Services to the Creative Ireland Programme”
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2019-05-07 📅
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 12
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 6
Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 12
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Tbwa
National registration number: Na
Postal address: 41A Blackberry Lane, Rathmines
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: Dublin 6
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 14966920 📞
E-mail: paula.kelly@tbwa.com 📧
Region: Éire/Ireland 🏙️
URL: https://tbwa-dublin.com/ 🌏
The contractor is an SME
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Estimated total value of the contract/lot: EUR 140 000 💰
Total value of the contract/lot: EUR 140 000 💰
Source: OJS 2019/S 092-223160 (2019-05-10)