Notice Information
Notice Title
Venue Hire, Graduation Ceremonies
Notice Description
Hire of a venue for the university's graduation ceremonies.
Lot Information
Lot 1
A venue was sought to host the university's graduation ceremonies.
Procurement Information
No other suitable venue available for hire met the university's needs within Cardiff. Therefore, the services can only be supplied by this particular economic operator for the following reasons; As a modern metropolitan university located in the city of Cardiff, we required a venue that is based in the city itself, one that is iconic both in Wales and beyond its borders. One that is culturally unique, demonstrating Welsh heritage and architecture yet which is also internationally recognisable for our students and their families and invited guests. The venue must support local communities and share the values of the university, it must provide a unique cultural experience for students, their families and supporters. The location must provide staging, separate spaces for gowning and photography and provide circulation space for up to a thousand guests and five hundred students. It must provide additional seated space for streaming of the ceremonies to accommodate extended family members who are unable to be seated in the actual ceremony itself. The venue must provide ticketing expertise and technical assistance, easy accessibility for guests, good transportation links, excellent acoustics, a central city centre location, operational space for university staff working at the venue along with proximity to restaurants and catering facilities. No other venue in Cardiff meets all of the requirements listed. A VEAT notice (Nov494402) was published on Sell2Wales on the 8th November 2024 and following a standstill period which passed without challenge, the university has now formally contracted with the Wales Millennium Centre.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-kuma6s-146659
- Publication Source
- Sell2Wales
- Latest Notice
- https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=146659
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- 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
79950000 - Exhibition, fair and congress organisation services
79952000 - Event services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £760,000 £500K-£1M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 5 Mar 202511 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 10 Dec 20241 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CARDIFF
- Postcode
- CF5 2YB
- Post Town
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLL Wales
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLL5 South East Wales
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLL52 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
- Delivery Location
- TLL22 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
-
- Local Authority
- Cardiff
- Electoral Ward
- Llandaff
- Westminster Constituency
- Cardiff West
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR500871
Venue Hire, Graduation Ceremonies - Hire of a venue for the university's graduation ceremonies.
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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