The Preparation and Delivery of the Style Mile Christmas Carnival

The council requires to engage an Event Services Company to create, prepare and deliver the Style Mile Christmas Carnival (SMCC). The key objective is that this project will be delivered by an organisation with a strong and demonstrable track record of innovative street arts and parade production. The contract is expected to run for 4 years, commencing 1 February 2021 and ending 31 January 2025. The council will have an option to extend the contract for one period of up to 12 months, which will be exercised by the council serving notice on the bidder in accordance with the council’s Terms and Conditions. The estimated annual spend is 50,000GBP, with a total spend for the delivery of this contract being 250,000GBP over the length of the contract (4 years + up to 12 months optional extension period). The Style Mile Christmas Carnival heralds the launch of the festive shopping campaign and is an evolving concept. It represents the council’s commitment to develop a retail and community focused Christmas event to launch the busiest shopping period of the year whilst promoting Glasgow city centre’s competitive retail offer. The current Style Mile Christmas Carnival programme involves a range of different activities which take place around the central Carnival Parade - a family focused procession, developed with retailers and community groups. The overall programme includes street entertainment, live music, and other family focused activities. On average, the Christmas Carnival has drawn an additional 20,000 people into the city centre each year. Glasgow’s Style Mile relates to the square mile in the heart of Glasgow’s city centre and is the city’s principal retail area and the UK’s top retail destination outside London’s West End. The Style Mile is a public-private partnership initiative to promote, protect and enhance the city’s retail offering and part of this strategy includes the development of an entertainment programme on the Style Mile which links into the launch of the festive retail campaign. There is no requirement for this contract to be split into lots. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.