Tender

T25-049BUS Curation and Management of Merchant Market at Foyle Maritime Festival 2026

  • Derry City and Strabane District Council

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Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-036453

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0556d4

Published 1 July 2025, 2:28pm



Scope

Reference

T25-049BUS Curation and Management of Merchant Market at Foyle Maritime Festival 2026

Description

Derry City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) is seeking proposals from suitably qualified individuals/organisations to curate and manage a Merchant Market at the 2026 Foyle Maritime Festival. The Foyle Maritime Festival (FMF) is due to take place from Thursday 25th until Sunday 28th June 2026 and will require an operational market featuring a range of bespoke food and high quality, bespoke crafts for the 4 consecutive days of the event. This tender requires a suitably qualified operator to provide a selection of market traders selling European food and high quality, bespoke crafts and goods for the 'Merchant Market' at the Foyle Maritime Festival 2026. Your submission must be submitted via etendersNI, via this CFT. No other method of submissions will be accepted. Please refer to the CfT documents for further detail.

Total value (estimated)

  • £20,000 including VAT

Below the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 June 2026 to 1 July 2026
  • 1 month, 1 day

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 79952000 - Event services
  • 79952100 - Cultural event organisation services
  • 92000000 - Recreational, cultural and sporting services
  • 79953000 - Festival organisation services

Contract locations

  • UKN0A - Derry City and Strabane

Submission

Enquiry deadline

1 August 2025, 12:00pm

Tender submission deadline

15 August 2025, 12:00pm

Submission address and any special instructions

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes


Award criteria

See Tender Docs for further detail.


Procedure

Procedure type

Below threshold - open competition


Contracting authority

Derry City and Strabane District Council

  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PGJQ-8275-HLMG

98 Strand Road

Derry

BT48 7NN

United Kingdom

Telephone: 02871253253

Email: tenders@derrystrabane.com

Website: http://www.derrystrabane.com

Region: UKN0A - Derry City and Strabane

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government

Devolved regulations that apply: Northern Ireland