CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Website for the Carneddau Landscape Partnership Scheme

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

The Carneddau Landscape Partnership Scheme website will be the communication hub for the scheme, bringing the project strands and activities together in one place. It will have a pivotal role storing interpretive content, signposting partner organisations and events, and marketing and promoting the scheme. The website will make people aware of the aims and objectives of the scheme whilst helping to interpret the area’s heritage.

Successful bidders are likely to be very experienced web developers and/or content creators with either significant recent experience of creating exciting and engaging websites that are highly functional and/or creating unusual, relevant and inspiring content of all types.

This project will require a number of people to work on it and therefore it will be unsuitable for sole traders, unless bidding as part of a consortium.

Brief description of supply:

Lot A: Design, build, host and maintain a highly functional and engaging website.

Lot B: Create inspiring content for the website.

Start date: 1 July 2021

Finish date: 31 March 2026

Please note the tender is in two parts - both must be completed to the timetable specified in order for your submission to be considered.

The closing date for the submission of the pre-qualification questionnaire is 12 noon 4 May 2021.

The PQQ must be completed online: https://forms.office.com/r/Ja6NbCPBin

Tenders must be submitted via post to the Authority Headquarters so please allow time for your bid to be received by the deadline.

The closing date for the return of Tenders is 5pm 21 May 2021.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=109950.

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

The expected budget for this contract is:

£20,000 for design, build, hosting and maintenance

£10,000 for content creation

Note that there is a separate budget for translation.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

Please read the Instructions for Tenderers and the Invitation to Tender documents.

Please ensure you complete the PQQ by 4 May 2021. Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered.

You can find the PQQ here: https://forms.office.com/r/Ja6NbCPBin

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Dual stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

4.3

Time Limits

4.5

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

First step of application: Please complete Carneddau website PQQ by 12pm 4 May 2021: https://forms.office.com/r/Ja6NbCPBin

PQQ pass/fail confirmation: 7 May 2021

All tender submissions must reach the SNPA Headquarters by 5pm on Friday 21 May 2021 in an anonymous, sealed envelope, bearing the title “Confidential: Bid – Carneddau Landscape Partnership Scheme - A Website for the Carneddau” and addressed to:

Director of Corporate Services, Snowdonia National Park Authority, National Park Offices, Penrhyndeudraeth,

Gwynedd, LL48 6LF

IMPORTANT: Electronic submissions are not accepted. Any submissions submitted electronically (e.g. via email) before the deadline will be disqualified.

All enquiries regarding this brief should, in the first instance, be addressed to Lowri Roberts via email to Lowri.Roberts@eryri.llyw.cymru.

The deadline for enquiries is 12 noon 14 May 2021.

(WA Ref:109950)

The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia bidding.

5.2

Additional Documentation

5.3

Publication date of this notice