Official UK procurement notice
Digital Marketing Services - RAF Museum
Authority: The Royal Air Force Museum (Charity / VCSE)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe RAFM requires a digital services agency to provide digital services for the Museum including:
- Website UX, design and content, for the main museum website www.rafmuseum.org ↗ and the museum's online shop www.rafmuseumshop.com ↗.
- Platform and server management
- Digital acquisition campaigns, focussed primarily on the Museum’s commercial and business objectives
- Management of the Museum’s Adwords Account
- SEO and SEM
CPV: Advertising and marketing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1All bidders will need to consider and propose services and costs for the following:…Published value£750,000
All bidders will need to consider and propose services and costs for the following: regarding Core Services.
a. UX Design User Research: Conduct user research to gain insights into the target audiences, their needs, behaviours, and preferences. How do they interact with the current website.
b. UX Design Audit: Perform a thorough UX audit of the main museum website, identifying areas for improvement and providing actionable recommendations.
c. Customer Journey: Create optimised customer journeys with personas built on the existing digital ecosystem.
d. UX Design Implementation: Develop and implement UX designs based on the key findings and recommendations from the UX design audit. Focus on compelling reasons to visit, maximising visit conversion, commitment and commercial opportunity.
e. UX Design System: Establish a UX design system to ensure consistency, efficiency, and scalability across the museum's digital properties.
f. Website Management and Optimisation: Continually improve its performance, with a particular focus on enhancing conversion rates. Monitor, report and improve analytics.
g. Digital Advertising Campaigns: Devise and execute cost effective digital advertising campaigns across a number of channels, including Search, Meta, and Instagram.
h. Campaign landing pages: Create optimised campaign pages to improve conversion rates.
i. Content Strategy: Audit existing website content and then create a high-level plan that identifies future content requirements, prioritisation and management tasks against specific website and digital campaign targets.
j. SEO Strategy and Implementation: Develop and execute on-page, technical, and local SEO strategies to improve the website's visibility and organic search performance.
k. Effective Management of Google Ad Grants: Efficiently manage the Museum's Google Ad Grants, maximizing the value and impact of the grant, which currently amounts to $40,000 per month.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (7)
- 1. Company Support and Subject Matter Expertise: 10%
- Staffing (quality of team): 10%
- Strategic partnership: 20%
- Continuous Improvement & Proactivity: 10%
- Performance Measurement & Reporting: 10%
- Creativity: 10%
- price: 30%
Published award criteria (7)
- 1. Company Support and Subject Matter Expertise: 10
- Staffing (quality of team): 10
- Strategic partnership: 20
- Continuous Improvement & Proactivity: 10
- Performance Measurement & Reporting: 10
- Creativity: 10
- Price: 30
- Economic & financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
- Technical & professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 7 Nov 2023, 13:50 GMT
- Last source update
- 7 Nov 2023, 13:50 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 11 Dec 2023 – …
- Authority reference
RAFM DMS23- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-032930- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-041673Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 8 Dec 2023, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 11 Dec 2023, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
7 Nov 2023 → 1 Mar 2024 · 4 dates- Notice published7 Nov 2023, 13:50 GMT
- Submission deadline8 Dec 2023, 17:00 GMT
- Bids opened11 Dec 2023, 12:00 GMT
- Contract starts1 Mar 2024
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Public Procurement Review ServiceReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.