Official UK procurement notice
Website Design and Development Services and Digital Services
Authority: Belfast Visitor and Convention Bureau Limited trading as Visit Belfast
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis procurement related to the provision of website design & development and digital services to Visit Belfast. Visit Belfast was seeking to appoint a suitably qualified, experienced and competent website design & development agency to assist Visit Belfast in promoting the Belfast City Region as a world class visitor destination. Visit Belfast was seeking to appoint a service provider to provide the required services for a three year period (with a possible maximum two year extension, at the sole discretion of Visit Belfast). For clarity, the estimated value of the contract below was based on a maximum potential contract duration of 5 years, in which
the total value of services required may range up to £500,000 per annum (giving a potential range of between
£500,000 and £1,500,000 for the initial 3 years of the contract).
CPV: Web page editing software development services · World wide web (www) site design services · World wide web (www) site operation host services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Visit Belfast invites tenders from suitably qualified, experienced, competent agencies…Cancelled
Visit Belfast invites tenders from suitably qualified, experienced, competent agencies for the development of its websites to support the delivery of Visit Belfast’s ambitious growth strategy and to include greater representation of partner products, events and experiences on offer across Belfast and Northern Ireland. We require the design and development of visit Belfast Consumer website, Corporate website, to represent Visit Belfast’s corporate identity, as well as the Cruise websites to provide important information to business who require information on Cruise industry at Visit Belfast cruise hub at the Belfast Harbour. Additional information: The estimated contract is £500k per annum. meaning a potential contract value of £2.5m should the options to extend be used. Any values stipulated in this notice are not guaranteed.
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 (5)
- Quality criterion - Name: Proposed Team: 20%
- Quality criterion - Name: Technical Exercise: 50%
- Cost criterion - Name: Average hourly/daily rate for proposed core team: 10%
- Cost criterion - Name: Total budget for Technical Exercise: 15%
- Cost criterion - Name: Annual maintenance & support and hosting for 3 websites consumer, cruise and corporate, for the period of the contract: 5%
Published award criteria (5)
- Quality criterion - Name: Proposed Team: 20%
- Quality criterion - Name: Technical Exercise: 50%
- Cost criterion - Name: Average hourly/daily rate for proposed core team: 10%
- Cost criterion - Name: Total budget for Technical Exercise: 15%
- Cost criterion - Name: Annual maintenance & support and hosting for 3 websites consumer, cruise and corporate, for the period of the contract: 5%
- 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
- Cancelled
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Dec 2023, 16:02 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Dec 2023, 16:02 GMT
- Authority reference
VB007- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-036681- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-042559Find a Tender
Publisher note: Visit Belfast has decided not to proceed with the award of a contract and to terminate the tender process. Visit Belfast is reviewing its requirements and a new tender process will commence shortly. A contract notice will be published in Find a Tender in due course.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 further award records carry no date or value.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of Justice in Northern IrelandMediation bodyReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.