Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
National Museums NI
Cultra
Holywood
BT18 0EU
UK
Contact person: Louise Thompson
E-mail: louise.thompson@finance-ni.gov.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://nmni.com/home.aspx
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk/topics/procurement
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
RID 503934 National Museums NI Provision of Advertising and Design.
Reference number: 503934
II.1.2) Main CPV code
22462000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
National Museums Northern Ireland wishes to appoint an agency to devise and implement fully integrated marketing communications campaigns and to deliver marketing/trading collateral and retail merchandise/point of sale material for the Ulster Museum, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and Ulster American Folk Park. The successful agency will be tasked with delivering all advertising and design requirements outlined above on behalf of National Museums Northern Ireland.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
800 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
79340000
79341000
79341400
79342000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKN
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
National Museums Northern Ireland wishes to appoint an agency to devise and implement fully integrated marketing communications campaigns and to deliver marketing/trading collateral and retail merchandise/point of sale material for the Ulster Museum, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and Ulster American Folk Park. The successful agency will be tasked with delivering all advertising and design requirements outlined above on behalf of National Museums Northern Ireland.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Personal Experience
/ Weighting: 7
Quality criterion: Understanding of key requirements
/ Weighting: 26.6
Quality criterion: Campaign high level critical path
/ Weighting: 4.2
Quality criterion: Media strategy
/ Weighting: 26.6
Quality criterion: Proposals for research
/ Weighting: 5.6
Cost criterion: Total Agency Income
/ Weighting: 11
Cost criterion: Third party mark-up
/ Weighting: 7
Cost criterion: Media commission rebate
/ Weighting: 7
Cost criterion: Hourly rates
/ Weighting: 5
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
The contract will initially be for 1½ years with an option to extend for a further 2½ and 2½ years respectively.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
The figure indicated in II.1.5 represents the upper limit of an estimated contract value which ranges from 200 000 GBP to 800 000 GBP. This range reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account such changes to the scope/and or scale which may result from future operational requirements.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2016/S 229-417432
Section V: Award of contract
Lot No: 0
Contract No: 1
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
07/02/2017
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 5
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 5
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
A.V. Browne Advertising Ltd
41-43 Hill Street
Belfast
BT1 2PB
UK
Telephone: +44 2890320663
E-mail: tenders@avb-group.co.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
URL: https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot:
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 800 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures
UK
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where. appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract is. communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the unsuccessful. tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
14/02/2017