Strategic and Creative Services

Tourism Ireland CLG

Tourism Ireland seeks a suitably qualified marketing communications agency or agencies to provide Global Lead Creative and Strategic Services to its global network of offices. The successful agency will be required to respond to a marketing brief and develop a strategic direction and multi-channel campaigns and communications to promote tourism to the island of Ireland, including, but not limited to: ๏ƒ˜ Understanding each of the markets from where the island of Ireland draws its visitors; and ๏ƒ˜ Developing and refining strategies to encourage more visitors to the island and producing high quality creative advertising and TTL communications campaigns for us in all appropriate media. The contract shall be for a period of four [4] years with the option to extend for a further period not exceeding 36 months; up to a maximum term of seven [7] years. Annual renewal will be subject to satisfactory performance, budget and other factors. PLEASE REFER TO THE CfT DOCUMENTATION AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING FOR FURTHER DETAILS OF THE REQUIRED SERVICES

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2024-04-10. The procurement was published on 2024-03-06.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2024-03-06 Contract notice
Contract notice (2024-03-06)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Strategic and Creative Services
Reference number: MCOMMS2024
Short description:
โ€œTourism Ireland seeks a suitably qualified marketing communications agency or agencies to provide Global Lead Creative and Strategic Services to its global...โ€    Show more
Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Advertising services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Estimated value excluding VAT: 9 000 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Other restrictions on the place of performance: Anywhere in the given country
Information about lots
Tenders may be submitted for maximum number of lots: 0
Description
Internal identifier: MCOMMS/2024
Estimated value excluding VAT: 9 000 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
This procurement is also suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) โœ…
Description of the procurement:
โ€œTourism Ireland seeks a suitably qualified marketing communications agency or agencies to provide Global Lead Creative and Strategic Services to its global...โ€    Show more
Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Advertising services ๐Ÿ“ฆ
The use of accessibility criteria for persons with disabilities in the technical specifications: Accessibility criteria for persons with disabilities are not included because the procurement is not intended for use by natural persons
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Maximum renewals: 3
Information about options
Options โœ…
Description of options:
โ€œThe contract shall be for a period of four [4] years with the option to extend for a further period not exceeding 36 months; up to a maximum term of seven...โ€    Show more
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 5
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001

Procedure
Type of procedure
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition โœ…
Legal basis: Directive 2014/24/EU
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2024-04-10 12:00:00 ๐Ÿ“…
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 6
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 โœ…
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Electronic invoicing: Required

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Exclusion ground: nati-ground

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Tourism Ireland CLG
National registration number: 336370
Postal address: 4th Floor - Bishop's Square, Redmond's Hill
Postal code: D02 TD99
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
E-mail: hhughes@tourismireland.com ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +35314763400 ๐Ÿ“ž
URL: https://www.tourismireland.com/ ๐ŸŒ
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.tourismireland.com/ ๐ŸŒ
Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Main activity
General public services
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=3105872 ๐ŸŒ
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/eawarding/showTenderList.do?resourceId=3105872 ๐ŸŒ
The criteria will be used to select the candidates to be invited for the second stage of the procedure โœ…
Electronic submission: Required

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: The High Court of Ireland
Department: The High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Postal code: D07 WDX8
Postal town: Dublin
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 1 8886000 ๐Ÿ“ž
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2024/S 049-141745 (2024-03-06)