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Arts Council England

GB-Manchester: ACE 525 ITT - "All In" Arts Access Scheme - Development of Standards and Accreditation Plan

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79100000
Value£80k
Awarded16 Jul 2024
Published24 Dec 2024
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£80ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

As part of the development of a UK-wide Access Scheme (All In) Arts Council England is seeking to develop of a set of national access standards and accreditation plan.

The overall aim of All In is improve D/deaf, Disabled, and Neurodivergent audience members' experience of creative and cultural organisations by successfully developing, incubating, and piloting a UK-wide, disability-led, digital membership scheme.

All In will be free for customers at the point of use and include Sector backed Standards and Accreditation (this ITT) for venues, training and support for the sector, listings, and a route to online booking and companion ticket offer.

It will also provide audience insights for partners and participating venues.

The other elements of All In are being procured separately.

All In has been commissioned by a Partnership comprising ACE, Arts Council Northern Ireland (ACNI), Arts Council Wales (ACW), the British Film Institute (BFI), and Creative Scotland (CS).

Arts Council England adopts the Social Model of Disability, which recognises that it is the social, procedural and attitudinal barriers which disable people.

The intention of this part of All In is to produce a Standards framework containing existing standards including 1, Built Environment (British Standards Institute BS 8300-2:2018), 2.

Digital and Communications (W3C: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) as well as encouraging the development of standards in 3.

Customer Service and 4.

Commissioning, Events and Programming.

Following extensive discovery work in these four areas and having undertaken market engagement with potential providers we have developed and refined our scope of requirements and provided an extended tendering period.

We are open to the above services either being procured from a single supplier or a consortium.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The overall aim of All In is

The overall aim of All In is improve D/deaf, Disabled, and Neurodivergent audience members' experience of creative and cultural organisations by successfully developing, incubating, and piloting a UK-wide, disability-led, digital membership scheme.

02

All In will be free for customers

All In will be free for customers at the point of use and include Sector backed Standards and Accreditation (this ITT) for venues, training and support for the sector, listings, and a route to online booking and companion ticket offer.

03

It will also provide audience insights

It will also provide audience insights for partners and participating venues.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

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What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

BS 8300 (accessible & inclusive design)Standards the work must meet
The intention of this part of All In is to produce a Standards framework containing existing standards including 1, Built Environment (British Standards Institute BS 8300-2:2018), 2.

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