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St.Helens Council

St Helens Borough Council - Provision of Digital Platform (Welcome Back Fund Project)

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£60k
Deadline4 Jan 2022
Published9 Dec 2021
RegionLondon
Timeline
Published 9 Dec 2021ClosedCloses 4 Jan 2022
Contract value in context
£60ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

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The brief

St Helens Council ("The Council) urgently need a well-established online marketplace with a digital place-based platform offering single click ordering, bookings and delivery across multiple businesses and business types.\r \r The activity is funded through the Welcome Back Fund, a fund from the European Regional Development Fund, and should contribute to attracting residents back into the town centres\r \r The Council needs to support shopping locally and in normal circumstances this would be by encouraging people into the town centre.

In the months during Covid restrictions there was an emphasis to move to an online model of a 'virtual' high street where customers can browse, book, and buy with a with built in click and collect to drive footfall and spend by encouraging high street and town centre visits.

Some business with sufficient capacity developed their own platforms and solutions however many have been left behind during the 'stay at home' restrictions.

The solution will enable people to host online events and activity bookings such as reading clubs, fitness sessions etc to support communities and businesses to stay connected in a hybrid as well as encouraging confidence to re-join live events and shopping.\r \r The Digital Place will need to support businesses, self-employed people, market traders, hospitality and retail businesses to trade during these unprecedented times with single click checkout and home delivery and to make our quality local independent businesses in our local high streets and markets, more resilient than ever.

The platform will need to complement existing digital programmes such as MaybeTech (social media training linked to place sentiments) and link into city-region projects such as the Peepl Network.\r \r As per ERDF contractual requirements the entire implementation must be\r completed and invoiced ahead of the 31st March 2022 deadline

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The activity is funded through the Welcome

The activity is funded through the Welcome Back Fund, a fund from the European Regional Development Fund, and should contribute to attracting residents back into the town centres\r.

02

The Council needs to support shopping locally

The Council needs to support shopping locally and in normal circumstances this would be by encouraging people into the town centre.

03

The solution will enable people to host

The solution will enable people to host online events and activity bookings such as reading clubs, fitness sessions etc to support communities and businesses to stay connected in a hybrid as well as encouraging confidence to re-join live events and shopping.\r.

04

The platform will need to complement existing

The platform will need to complement existing digital programmes such as MaybeTech (social media training linked to place sentiments) and link into city-region projects such as the Peepl Network.\r.

05

As per ERDF contractual requirements the entire

As per ERDF contractual requirements the entire implementation must be\r.

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Stage
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Source
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Buyer ref
STHEL001-DN586818-96047804
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