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Swansea University

SU199(23) Marketing and Student Recruitment Services in Malaysia & Southeast Asia

Business ServicesCPV 79600000
Value£357k
Deadline21 Aug 2023
Published17 Jul 2023
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 17 Jul 2023ClosedCloses 21 Aug 2023
Who to contact
procurement@swansea.ac.uk
+44 1792602779

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Contract value in context
£357ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Swansea University is seeking a company with the ability to support and deliver marketing and student recruitment activity in Southeast Asia on our behalf.

The aim of this is to support the University’s strategy in Southeast Asia of increasing undergraduate and postgraduate student market share and to grow student enrolments.

This will `be through a variety of channels including TNE partnerships.

We will require one member of staff who will be exclusively dedicated to Swansea University activity, and the company should have the capacity to increase this number if required.

We require the staff member to be at manager level, with at least five years' experience in a similar role within higher education in Malaysia or a similar market in the region.

They will lead on delivering the University’s marketing and recruitment activity and will have a sales driven approach to help improve conversion of students to enrolments; they will have knowledge of UK higher education, and will be a confident communicator, The supplier must limit their fees to only include set up and for costs relating to the management of the staff.

All other costs must only be payable on variable costs and actuals, which will be agreed in advance.

The company must, when requested, provide receipts and monthly reports on the return on investment of the staff activity as well as the marketing activity, in a timely manner.

The University estimates a total contract value of approximately GBP 356,500.00 over the maximum four year period.

The contract will be for an initial 2 year period with an option to extend for a further two years (2+2), subject to funds and performance.

The University will reserve the right to increase this amount up to an additional 50% upon agreement by both parties.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Swansea University is seeking a company

Swansea University is seeking a company with the ability to support and deliver marketing and student recruitment activity in Southeast Asia on our behalf.

02

The aim of this is to support

The aim of this is to support the University’s strategy in Southeast Asia of increasing undergraduate and postgraduate student market share and to grow student enrolments.

03

We will require one member of staff

We will require one member of staff who will be exclusively dedicated to Swansea University activity, and the company should have the capacity to increase this number if required.

04

We require the staff member to

We require the staff member to be at manager level, with at least five years' experience in a similar role within higher education in Malaysia or a similar market in the region.

05

The supplier must limit their fees

The supplier must limit their fees to only include set up and for costs relating to the management of the staff.

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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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