Call-Off Design and Creative Services

The objective of the call off is to provide new templates and ideas on how we can enhance existing and new documents in order to achieve a level of professional output in the following area:

Accessibility and readability

The information may be technical and complex and it needs to be able effectively communicate with stakeholders and other interested parties.

Scope

The Contract shall operate on the basis of a call off with the Supplier being given project work as directed by the Ofwat project manager. Unless specified in this document both parties shall agree the deadline for completion of each project.

Any Contract awarded shall run from its Commencement Date which is anticipated to be January 2018 for two years with the option to extend up to 12 months.

Ofwat requires support to help produce innovative content using new and up-to-date approaches to design and creative work. Ofwat publishes a number of key publications each year to a challenging timetable. Our documents need to be engaging and in a format that is clear and accessible to our stakeholders, while retaining the necessary level of technical detail.

All our in-house design work is created on Surface Pro 3 (PC platform).

The Supplier may be required but not limited to support and delivery of:

Examples of the style of photographs and approach to design Ofwat currently uses can be found at http://www.ofwat.gov.uk. Some examples of work undertaken this year include:

Our corporate visual identity guide (attached at Appendix A) outlines our visual style and approach to photography.

The Supplier will need to ensure work can be delivered securely as unpublished data is official and sometimes commercially sensitive.

Any work that is produced on Ofwat's behalf will be Crown Copyright. We will require the editable original files in a format we can edit to adapt and reuse as we see fit.