PMP1537D โ€” UL โ€” Competitive Dialogue Procedure for Digital and Content Marketing Services

Education Procurement Service (EPS)

This tender is ultimately to build brand UL across three specific areas, Brand UL. Post Graduate and Under Graduate at UL Brand Level and International Brand Awareness. The requirement for each area is two-fold;
โ€ข strategy and campaign planning to include content creation as required such as blogs, e-book creation, digital adverts, emails, google advertising, social and web native graphics, short video, animated gifs, social media features panels and advertising (including any editing that may be required to make in-house content searchable via google, etc.).
โ€ข Media Spend on PPC, Google AdWords, Google search advertising, remarketing and All Paid Social activity.
Experience in client CRM management tools is required including e.g. Hubspot, Radius, Tribal products. Drupal, pubble and various other chat systems are also used by UL.

Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2021-06-18. The procurement was published on 2021-05-19.

Suppliers
The following suppliers are mentioned in award decisions or other procurement documents:
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Procurement history
Date Document
2021-05-19 Contract notice
2021-07-16 Additional information
2022-03-16 Contract award notice
Contract notice (2021-05-19)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Education Procurement Service (EPS)
National registration number: IE 6609370 G
Postal address: University of Limerick
Postal town: Castletroy
Postal code: Co. Limerick
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Contact person: Linda Maher
Phone: +353 61233715 ๐Ÿ“ž
E-mail: linda.maher@ul.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Region: ร‰ire/Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ
URL: http://www.educationprocurementservice.ie ๐ŸŒ
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/87073 ๐ŸŒ
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=189399&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ
Participation URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=189399&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Object
Scope of the procurement
Title:
โ€œPMP1537D โ€” UL โ€” Competitive Dialogue Procedure for Digital and Content Marketing Services RFT 190794โ€
Products/services: Marketing services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Short description:
โ€œThis tender is ultimately to build brand UL across three specific areas, Brand UL. Post Graduate and Under Graduate at UL Brand Level and International...โ€    Show more

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Additional products/services: Marketing services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional products/services: Advertising services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional products/services: Advertising consultancy services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional products/services: Advertising management services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional products/services: Advertising campaign services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional products/services: Marketing management consultancy services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Place of performance: ร‰ire/Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ
Main site or place of performance: University of Limerick.
Description of the procurement:
โ€œThis tender is ultimately to build brand UL across three specific areas, Brand UL. Post Graduate and Under Graduate at UL Brand Level and International...โ€    Show more
Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 12
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
This contract is subject to renewal โœ…
Description
Description of renewals:
โ€œThe contracting authority reserves the right, at its discretion, to extend the Term for a period or periods of up to one (1) year with a maximum of three...โ€    Show more
Additional information: All information relating to tenders is published on www.etenders.gov.ie only

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
List and brief description of conditions: Please see RFT document for further details.
Economic and financial standing
List and brief description of selection criteria: Please see RFT document for further details.
Conditions for participation
Please see RFT document for further details.
Technical and professional ability
List and brief description of selection criteria: Please see RFT document for further details.
Conditions for participation
Conditions for participation (technical and professional ability): Please see RFT document for further details.
Conditions related to the contract
Contract performance conditions: Please see RFT document for further details.

Procedure
Type of procedure
Competitive dialogue
Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
Framework agreement with several operators
Description
Envisaged maximum number of participants to the framework agreement: 10
Information about reduction of the number of solutions or tenders during negotiation or dialogue
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2021-06-18 14:00 ๐Ÿ“…
Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates: 2021-08-09 ๐Ÿ“…
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 12

Complementary information
Review body
Name: Office of the High Court
Postal address: Four Courts Ground Floor, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Phone: +353 18886000 ๐Ÿ“ž
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Source: OJS 2021/S 098-257052 (2021-05-19)
Additional information (2021-07-16)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title:
โ€œPMP1537D - UL โ€” Competitive Dialogue Procedure for Digital and Content Marketing Services RFT 190794โ€
Short description:
โ€œThis tender is ultimately to build brand UL across three specific areas, Brand UL. Post Graduate and Under Graduate at UL Brand Level and International...โ€    Show more

Complementary information
Original notice reference
Notice number in the OJ S: 2021/S 098-257052

Changes
Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number: IV.2.3)
Place of text to be modified:
โ€œEstimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidatesโ€
Old value
Date: 2021-08-09 ๐Ÿ“…
Time: 14:00
New value
Date: 2021-09-06 ๐Ÿ“…
Time: 14:00
Source: OJS 2021/S 139-370896 (2021-07-16)
Contract award notice (2022-03-16)
Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Postal code: Co.Limerick

Object
Scope of the procurement
Title:
โ€œPMP1537D - UL - Competitive Dialogue Procedure for Digital & Content Marketing Services RFT 190794โ€
Short description:
โ€œThis tender is ultimately to build brand UL across three specific areas, Brand UL. Post Graduate & Under Graduate at UL Brand Level and International Brand...โ€    Show more
Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT): EUR 2 500 000 ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Description
Main site or place of performance: University of Limerick
Description of the procurement:
โ€œThis tender is ultimately to build brand UL across three specific areas, Brand UL. Post Graduate & Under Graduate at UL Brand Level and International Brand...โ€    Show more
Award criteria
Quality criterion (name): Creative Process/ideas / positioning / Brand development
Quality criterion (weighting): 15%
Quality criterion (name): Service
Quality criterion (name): Reporting
Quality criterion (name): Staffing โ€“ Manpower and Organisation
Quality criterion (weighting): 10%
Quality criterion (name): International Experience
Quality criterion (name): EU Cookie Directive Challenges
Quality criterion (weighting): 5%
Quality criterion (name): CRM- lead generation & conversion capability
Price (weighting): 30%

Procedure
Information about framework agreement
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
Administrative information
Previous publication concerning this procedure: 2021/S 098-257052

Award of contract

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Contract Number: 1
Title:
โ€œPMP1537D - UL - Competitive Dialogue Procedure for Digital & Content Marketing Servicesโ€
Date of conclusion of the contract: 2022-01-19 ๐Ÿ“…
Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 2
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: 2
Name and address of the contractor
Name: Connelly Partners LLC
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Region: ร‰ire/Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ
The contractor is an SME โœ…
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Estimated total value of the contract/lot: EUR 2 500 000 ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Total value of the contract/lot: EUR 2 500 000 ๐Ÿ’ฐ

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Contract Number: 2
Name and address of the contractor
Name: TFS Media t/a 256
Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Estimated total value of the contract/lot: EUR 2 500 000 ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Total value of the contract/lot: EUR 2 500 000 ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Source: OJS 2022/S 056-147367 (2022-03-16)