CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

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Authority Name and Address

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Address from which documentation may be obtained

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Completed documents must be returned to:

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Cultural Periodicals 2015-2019

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Description of the goods or services required

Applications are invited for four-year funding under the Cultural Periodicals Grant.

The scheme supports a number of cultural magazines (or sections of those magazines), which feature good writing, high-quality journalism, review and debate on a range of topics.

For the period from 1 April 2015 - 31 March 2019, applications will be considered from publishers based in Wales in one of the following areas:

Funding for Development

Funding for General Magazines

Funding for Literary Magazines

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Notice Coding and Classification

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Total quantity or scope of tender

• The total annual budget for this scheme is in the region of £175,000. A sum in the region of £5,000 will be used to provide training for magazine publishers. No sum is ring-fenced for any one area, except training, but it is likely that funding will be awarded in all the areas of focus described above.

• The grant level for general and literary magazines will be aimed towards reaching a gearing ratio of up to 2:1 (i.e. WBC funding would provide up to two thirds of the total income of the magazine, with at least a third of income to be generated by the magazine publishers through sales, advertising revenue, sponsorship, contribution in kind etc. For guidelines on calculating contribution in kind please see appendix 1 of this document).

• Funding for an individual title awarded under the general or literary heading is likely to range between £2,500 and c.£55,000.

• Funding for an individual title awarded under the development fund heading is likely to range between £2,500 and c.£10,000.

• Grants are offered as four-year franchises, subject to satisfactory annual review of the franchise holder, and subject to the continuation of funding from Welsh Government.

• In order to comply with European Regulations with regards to State Aid the grant awarded under this scheme will be given in compliance with the De Minimis Regulation (Commission Regulation (EC Regulation number 1407/2013). If the publisher has received public funding classed as De Minimis aid from sources other than the Welsh Books Council, the combined funding from all sources must not exceed the De Minimis threshold (€200,000 over a three fiscal year period).

3 Conditions for Participation

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Minimum standards and qualification required

Who may apply

Recipients of grants over £8,000 must be legally incorporated bodies; these will generally be not-for-profit companies limited by guarantee. Recipients of smaller grants must have separate bank accounts and appropriate arrangements for financial and general management.

The scheme does not fund:

small magazines which are likely to sell no more than 400 copies (see the guidelines for the Small Magazines Scheme in English);

educational magazines or academic journals;

magazines that are published by organisations and societies, unless they have an appeal beyond the organisations’ membership;

magazines of local interest.

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

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Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

N/a

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Time Limits

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

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Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

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Additional Information

Please note that this is a two-stage application process. During the initial stage all applicants must submit a brief application form (supplied with this document). This must be returned to Lucy Thomas by post and email (address at the bottom of this document) by 15 August 2014. Any significant issues arising from this form will be discussed with applicants before they go on to submit a full application.

(WA Ref:12045)

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice