Notice Information
Notice Title
DfE - Tourism NI - Northern Ireland Tourism Industry Research
Notice Description
Tourism NI wish to appoint a Supplier to carry out a programme of industry research. As a core requirement Tourism NI envisage a minimum of one tourism barometer survey each year with a broadly representative sample of Northern Ireland's tourism industry to provide an insight into year-to-date tourism performance and outlook for the remainder of the year. Additional be-spoke ad hoc industry surveys and research projects on a range of industry wide or sector specific topics may also be required including for example; evaluation surveys for industry support programmes and key Business to Business trade events, including business conferences surveys, These additional surveys and other projects, such as quick turnaround surveys and qualitative in-depth interviews/ industry focus groups will be ad-hoc, demand-led and budget dependent. The contract period will be fixed for 3 years with no optional extension. Please refer to tender documents for full details.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Tourism NI wish to appoint a Supplier to carry out a programme of industry research. As a core requirement Tourism NI envisage a minimum of one tourism barometer survey each year with a broadly representative sample of Northern Ireland's tourism industry to provide an insight into year-to-date tourism performance and outlook for the remainder of the year. Additional be-spoke ad hoc industry surveys and research projects on a range of industry wide or sector specific topics may also be required including for example; evaluation surveys for industry support programmes and key Business to Business trade events, including business conferences surveys, These additional surveys and other projects, such as quick turnaround surveys and qualitative in-depth interviews/ industry focus groups will be ad-hoc, demand-led and budget dependent. The contract period will be fixed for 3 years with no optional extension. Please refer to tender documents for full details. Additional information: The figure indicated in Section II 1.7 represents an estimated contract value. This value reflects the potential scale of the contract. Neither CPD nor the Authority can provide any guarantee as to the level of business under this contract. The Contracting Authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. Economic Operators remain responsible for all costs and expenses incurred by them or by any third party acting under instructions from the Economic Operator in connection with taking part in this procurement process regardless of whether such costs arise as a consequence, directly or indirectly of any amendments made to the procurement documents by the Contracting Authority at any time.
Renewal: 3 years from contract award estimated to be February 2028
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04e6e2
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/022664-2025
- 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
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79300000 - Market and economic research; polling and statistics
79310000 - Market research services
79311000 - Survey services
79311100 - Survey design services
79320000 - Public-opinion polling services
79342310 - Customer survey services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £155,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- £155,000 £100K-£500K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £155,000 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 19 May 20259 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 20 Mar 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 13 May 20259 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Estimated to be February 2028
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- TOURISM NORTHERN IRELAND TOURISM NI
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- SSDAdmin.CPDfinance-ni.gov.uk
- Contact Email
- ssdadmin.cpd@finance-ni.gov.uk, ssdadmin@cpdfinance-ni.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BELFAST
- Postcode
- BT2 7ES
- Post Town
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- Northern Ireland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLN Northern Ireland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLN0 Northern Ireland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLN06 Belfast
- Delivery Location
- TLN Northern Ireland
-
- Local Authority
- Belfast
- Electoral Ward
- Central
- Westminster Constituency
- Belfast South and Mid Down
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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