Provision of a Destination Management Service for Hertfordshire - Visit Herts

Hertfordshire County Council (the Council) is tendering to deliver a Destination Management Service in Hertfordshire, that will operate as Visit Herts and work in partnership with Hertfordshire stakeholders, in particular Hertfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership and Hertfordshire County Council. There is an expectation that Visit Herts will be delivered as a service that is respected and valued by stakeholders, and is recognised nationally as one of Britain's leading and most innovative Destination Management Services. Visit Herts will need to deliver to a broad and ambitious agenda, so there is an expectation that the service operates to a mixed funding model, where the contracted provider will need to leverage additional funding and resource into to Visit Herts to optimise the scope of what the service can deliver.

Please Note The TUPE Staffing Information for this procurement has been provided along with other documentation for this procurement. TUPE related information must be treated as protected data in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 and must be kept confidential. By clicking on the View Details button and accessing the documentation for this procurement, Tenderers agree:

• a)To undertake to treat the information as confidential and commercially sensitive at all times and take all reasonable steps to prevent any inadvertent disclosure to any third party .
• b)That under no circumstances will any of the information be disclosed by your organisation or your personnel to any third party without the Council's prior consent in writing.
• c)That the information supplied will be stored securely and destroyed or returned to the Council, after your Organisation's bid has been submitted or you decide not to proceed with a tender submission.
• d)That you will indemnify the Council for any losses, arising from your breach or breach by any of your personnel of these confidentiality requirements specified above and data protection requirements in relation to TUPE Staffing Information.
• e)The requirements above apply whether the supplier uploads a tender response to this procurement or not.

This procurement is an Open (one stage process). Suppliers wishing to take part in this project are invited to 'express interest' which will give access to the full procurement documents in the e-tendering system.

To be considered as a Bidder you must complete and submit a Bid by the deadline of 12.00 Noon on 6th March 2017

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Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No