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Bournemouth Borough Council

Marathon Event

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 92000000
Value£24k
Awarded15 Jul 2018
Published2 Oct 2018
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£24ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits below the typical range for Business Services contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Introduction - Bournemouth Borough Council and the Borough of Poole ("the Council") are tendering the rights to hold a Marathon event, the first commencing in the Autumn of 2019.

The Marathon event should have the feel of a Festival and take place over the course of a weekend in September or October to be agreed by the Council.

The supplier should have experience within their team of delivering Marathon events to an IAAF Bronze level standard or higher.

This contract is purely for the rights to hold the Marathon event on Council land.

The successful supplier will own the event entirely and be responsible for everything relating to it.

Scope - It is anticipated that the contract will commence on 21st September 2018 with the first Marathon event commencing in the Autumn of 2019.

The length of the contract is for six years with the option to extend the contract annually for a further two years.

Therefore, if all extensions were taken, the full length of the contract would be for eight years.

It is anticipated that the contract will start on 21st September 2018.

Requirement - The Marathon event should have the feel of a Festival and take place over the course of a weekend in September or October to be agreed by the Council.

The supplier should have experience within their team of delivering Marathon events to an IAAF Bronze level standard or higher.

This contract is purely for the rights to hold the Marathon event on Council land.

The successful supplier will own the event entirely and be responsible for everything relating to it.

The supplier is responsible for all procurement of infrastructure and services required in order to deliver the event.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Marathon event should have the feel

The Marathon event should have the feel of a Festival and take place over the course of a weekend in September or October to be agreed by the Council.

02

The supplier should have experience within their

The supplier should have experience within their team of delivering Marathon events to an IAAF Bronze level standard or higher.

03

The successful supplier will own the event

The successful supplier will own the event entirely and be responsible for everything relating to it.

04

The supplier is responsible for all procurement

The supplier is responsible for all procurement of infrastructure and services required in order to deliver the event.

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Source & provenance
OCID
43910745-065f-4ea5-8cd8-4537210ee5e6
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
BOURN001-DN345029-69681566
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