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AHDB (Defra Network eTendering Portal)

Venue Finding Services

Business ServicesCPV 79952000
Value£1.3m
Deadline18 Jun 2024
Published16 May 2024
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 16 May 2024ClosedCloses 18 Jun 2024
Who to contact
Sarah Waters
procurement@ahdb.org.uk

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How to submit
Open the submissions portal

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Contract value in context
£1.3mtotal 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

AHDB intend to procure a Contract to a successful Supplier for the provision Venue Finding services.

The successful supplier will be required to deliver venue quotes with clear costs, offer bill-back services, best-negotiated rates and varied options of locations/venues.

AHDB work on various events, so the selected agency must have the ability to provide large and small venues.

Bill back services can be up to £80,000 per event, so the agency must have the financial capability to facilitate this and the selected agency need to generate their commission from the venues and not charge AHDB for their service, as well as ensuring value for money for levy payers is provided.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The successful supplier will be required

The successful supplier will be required to deliver venue quotes with clear costs, offer bill-back services, best-negotiated rates and varied options of locations/venues.

02

AHDB work on various events, so

AHDB work on various events, so the selected agency must have the ability to provide large and small venues.

03

Bill back services can be up

Bill back services can be up to £80,000 per event, so the agency must have the financial capability to facilitate this and the selected agency need to generate their commission from the venues and not charge AHDB for their service, as well as ensuring value for money for levy payers is provided.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-045a0b
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
015549-2024
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