DfE - Tourism NI - Northern Ireland Tourism Industry Research

Location

Northern Ireland:

Description

Tourism NI wish to appoint a Supplier to carry out a programme of industry research. As a core requirement Tourism NI envisage a minimum of one tourism barometer survey each year with a broadly representative sample of Northern Ireland’s tourism industry to provide an insight into year-to-date tourism performance and outlook for the remainder of the year. Additional be-spoke ad hoc industry surveys and research projects on a range of industry wide or sector specific topics may also be required including for example; evaluation surveys for industry support programmes and key Business to Business trade events, including business conferences surveys, These additional surveys and other projects, such as quick turnaround surveys and qualitative in-depth interviews/ industry focus groups will be ad-hoc, demand-led and budget dependent. The contract period will be fixed for 3 years with no optional extension. Please refer to tender documents for full details.

Total Quantity or Scope

Additional information: The figure indicated in Section II 1.7 represents an estimated contract value. This value reflects the potential scale of the contract. Neither CPD nor the Authority can provide any guarantee as to the level of business under this contract. The Contracting Authority does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. Economic Operators remain responsible for all costs and expenses incurred by them or by any third party acting under instructions from the Economic Operator in connection with taking part in this procurement process regardless of whether such costs arise as a consequence, directly or indirectly of any amendments made to the procurement documents by the Contracting Authority at any time.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 79300000 - Market and economic research; polling and statistics
• 79311000 - Survey services
• 79342310 - Customer survey services
• 79320000 - Public-opinion polling services
• 79311100 - Survey design services
• 79310000 - Market research services

Other Information

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