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            "description": "Business development consultancy services"
          },
          {
            "id": "73220000",
            "scheme": "CPV",
            "description": "Development consultancy services"
          },
          {
            "id": "80500000",
            "scheme": "CPV",
            "description": "Training services"
          },
          {
            "id": "80000000",
            "scheme": "CPV",
            "description": "Education and training services"
          },
          {
            "id": "80510000",
            "scheme": "CPV",
            "description": "Specialist training services"
          },
          {
            "id": "80521000",
            "scheme": "CPV",
            "description": "Training programme services"
          },
          {
            "id": "79410000",
            "scheme": "CPV",
            "description": "Business and management consultancy services"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "title": "ID 5827949 - DFE – Tourism NI – Managed Business Support Services – Preliminary Market Engagement",
    "value": {
      "amount": 4000000,
      "currency": "GBP",
      "amountGross": 4800000
    },
    "status": "planning",
    "legalBasis": {
      "id": "2023/54",
      "uri": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents",
      "scheme": "UKPGA"
    },
    "description": "The Northern Ireland Tourist Board trading as Tourism Northern Ireland (TNI) (“the Client”) wishes to appoint a Supplier to provide a Managed Business Support Service to the Tourism Industry.\nThe Tourism Action Plan launched in January 25 outlines a strategic goal of growing the value of tourism to £2b per annum by 2035 supporting strategic growth of tourism over the next 10 years.\nThe procurement of a Managed Business Support Provider will enable Tourism NI to adopt a flexible mechanism to deliver a wide range of tailored tourism business support and learning to the NI tourism sector.\nSupport may include 1-1 mentoring, group mentoring, learning and development programmes, and also include content creation for online learning courses delivered via ‘ an eLearning platform, with the aim of creating end-to-end business support on behalf of Tourism NI (TNI) in a number of bespoke, strategic areas.\nThe Managed Service will include facility for local authorities and government departments to draw down on procurement terms.\nTourism NI has successfully used a similar Framework to deliver a wide range of tailored tourism specific support, mentoring and expertise to tourism businesses since 2019 . The recipients of such support, engaged through hundreds of specific projects, has included private sector tourism SMEs, local government organisations, third sector and sectoral representative bodies, with access to 190 or so mentors / experts.\nThe framework has been considered to have been successful across key user groups such as Tourism NI, stakeholders and individual tourism businesses.\nThe Managed Service Framework therefore has been an instrumental tool in supporting Tourism NI rapidly adapt to the changing needs of the tourism industry.\nDelivery ranges from 1-1 to 1-many mentoring programmes both in person and online delivery, focusing on key areas such as Sustainability, Innovation, Digitisation, Marketing and other areas. \n-The mentoring programmes may include business audits, the development of action plans, sector specific learning and content development. ",
    "communication": {
      "futureNoticeDate": "2025-04-14T23:59:59+00:00"
    },
    "aboveThreshold": true,
    "mainProcurementCategory": "services"
  },
  "parties": [
    {
      "id": "GB-PPON-PPMV-2979-BDPH",
      "name": "Tourism Northern Ireland",
      "roles": [
        "buyer"
      ],
      "address": {
        "region": "UKN06",
        "country": "GB",
        "locality": "Belfast",
        "postalCode": "BT2 7ES",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "Floors 10-12 Linum Chambers"
      },
      "details": {
        "url": "https://www.tourismni.com/",
        "classifications": [
          {
            "id": "publicAuthorityCentralGovernment",
            "scheme": "UK_CA_TYPE",
            "description": "Public authority - central government"
          },
          {
            "id": "GB-NIR",
            "scheme": "UK_CA_DEVOLVED_REGULATIONS",
            "description": "Northern Irish devolved regulations apply"
          }
        ]
      },
      "identifier": {
        "id": "PPMV-2979-BDPH",
        "scheme": "GB-PPON"
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "email": "ssdadmin.cpd@finance-ni.gov.uk"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "GB-PPON-PVWG-8426-YWXV",
      "name": "Construction and Procurement Delivery",
      "roles": [
        "procuringEntity",
        "processContactPoint"
      ],
      "address": {
        "region": "UKN06",
        "country": "GB",
        "locality": "Belfast",
        "postalCode": "BT3 9ED",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "303 Airport Road West"
      },
      "details": {
        "url": "https://www.finance-ni.gov.uk"
      },
      "identifier": {
        "id": "PVWG-8426-YWXV",
        "scheme": "GB-PPON"
      },
      "roleDetails": "Construction and Procurement Delivery – Supplies and Services Division, is a Centre of Procurement Expertise and provides a central procurement function for central government in Northern Ireland. ",
      "contactPoint": {
        "email": "ssdadmin.cpd@finance-ni.gov.uk"
      }
    }
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "planning": {
    "documents": [
      {
        "id": "008414-2025",
        "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008414-2025",
        "format": "text/html",
        "noticeType": "UK2",
        "description": "Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender",
        "documentType": "marketEngagementNotice",
        "datePublished": "2025-03-07T16:13:27Z"
      }
    ],
    "milestones": [
      {
        "id": "engagement",
        "type": "engagement",
        "status": "scheduled",
        "dueDate": "2025-04-03T23:59:59+00:00",
        "description": "Tourism Northern Ireland will be hosting Market Engagement Days at their offices in Belfast (Wednesday 2nd April am) and via Microsoft Teams  (Thursday 3rd April pm) for suppliers interested in finding out more.\nThe procurement process will be managed by Northern Ireland’s Construction Procurement Delivery (CPD). Agencies interested in attending the Market Engagement Days are asked to email ssdadmin.cpd@finance-ni.gov.uk by 5pm on Friday 28th March 2025 @ 5pm.\n Please note that appointments will be scheduled on a first come basis and will last a maximum of 45 minutes. A maximum of 3 people per supplier should attend"
      }
    ]
  },
  "initiationType": "tender"
}