Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
DfE Invest Northern Ireland
Bedford Square, Bedford Street
BELFAST
BT2 7ES
Contact
SSDAdmin.CPDfinance-ni.gov.uk
SSDAdmin.CPD@finance-ni.gov.uk
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
DfE - Invest NI - Provision of Public Relations Services and management of Invest NI Wechat and Weibo Social Media Accounts in mainland China
Reference number
ID 3661464
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
Invest Northern Ireland wishes to appoint a Contractor to provide PR services to support its mainland China activity on a project basis and to manage their Wechat and Weibo social media accounts. The Contractor shall plan and implement PR and social media activity in order to best showcase Northern Ireland as a place to do business, NI’s expertise in key trade sectors and raise the profile of Northern Ireland as an investment location. Activity will include strategic and tactical PR i.e. media liaison, arrange media interviews, drafting press releases and editorial, press briefings etc. and social media content production.
Section six. Complementary information
six.6) Original notice reference
Notice number: 2021/S 000-028850
Section seven. Changes
seven.1) Information to be changed or added
seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number
IV.2.2)
Place of text to be modified
Procedure - Time Limit for Receipt of tenders
Instead of
Date
20 December 2021
Local time
3:00pm
Read
Date
10 January 2022
Local time
3:00pm
seven.2) Other additional information
Invest NI has reviewed the closing date and decided to give a further extension due to the close proximity to the Holiday period over Christmas. Invest NI has agreed to extend the closing date until 10 January 2022.