Notice Information
Notice Title
Tower Bridge Events Management Services
Notice Description
The City of London Corporation (the City) invited Tenders for the provision of the Tower Bridge Events Management Services contract.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Tower Bridge required a single Events Management Contractor to be responsible for all areas of the events business (sales, marketing, bookings, event operations, security (overseen by the Bridge's operational 24hr security provision), catering, and client aftercare. The awarded supplier will be expected to provide a high quality and well-regarded events experience for all clients. Longer term, Tower Bridge should be known as one of the most sustainable and socially impactful events venues in London, while still being profitable and receiving excellent client feedback. The duration of the contract is 3 years, subject to the right of the City (at its sole discretion) to exercise its right to extend by a further 3 years, therefore the total contract term is 6 years.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-03c840
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005929-2024
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
55 - Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services
-
- CPV Codes
55520000 - Catering services
55523000 - Catering services for other enterprises or other institutions
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £6,600,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £6,600,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £6,600,000 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 23 Feb 20242 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 12 Jun 2023Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 25 Jan 20242 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- robert.pine@cityoflondon.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2076063030
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- EC2P 2EJ
- Post Town
- Central London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI43 Haringey and Islington
- Delivery Location
- TLI London
-
- Local Authority
- Islington
- Electoral Ward
- Clerkenwell
- Westminster Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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