Website Host & Maintenance Provider

Concepts

• birmingham
• information technology
• annual website hosting
• maintenance costs
• website host
• detailed breakdown of the annual hosting agreement
• website provider
• maintenance
• main tourism website
• 3rd party provider

Location

Liverpool: As the crow flies from B19 post code

Description

The services required for annual website hosting and maintenance can only be fulfilled by a specific agency - Simpleview - who have sole access to Visit Birmingham's back end infrastructure and CMS/DMS. Each year we pay Simpleview, our website provider, hosting and maintenance costs for the running of our core leisure tourism channels visitbirmingham.com/meetbirmingham.com and makeitwm.com - this is a service that can solely be done by them, as they alone have access to the IT systems and infrastructure that is required to fulfil this service. This could not be outsourced to a 3rd party provider. Hosting and maintenance of visitbimmingham.com/meetbirmingham.com and makeitwm.com.

Total Quantity or Scope

The below is the detailed breakdown of the annual hosting agreement. Destination Management System Core Components • Visitor Information Module (Product Management System) • Visitor CRM Module • Customer Support • DMS Hosting • Address Lookup Software Enterprise Content Management System • Main Tourism Website • Additional or Tourism Essentials • Customer Support for CMS Editors Web Hosting HTTPS • SSL certificate Web Modules • Survey Builder • Banner Ad Management System • Blog DMS Modules • Event submission and approval module- enhanced Widgets • Trip Advisor Widgets- Accommodation • Trip Advisor Widgets- each additional product type Booking Options • Live availability from online travel agencies (polling) • Guestlink + Live availability from property management systems incl. styling of availability grid •

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Legal Justification

West Midlands Growth Company Ltd have directly award the contract to Simpleview due to the nature of the service required and inline with principles set in PPN01/20 where direct award is permissible due absence of competition and protection of exclusive rights under Regulation 32 (2) of the PCR which allows for sole supplier sourcing through use of a negotiated procedure without prior publication to be used and this request also falls within Regulation 32 (5) delivery of services by an existing supplier to where competition is absent due to technical reasons. In the case of this procurement competition is absent and only one supplier can provide the expertise required to produce the product or has capacity to complete on the scale required. The protection of exclusive, including the intellectual property rights, the current supplier owns those rights and has the exclusive right to exploit the intellectual property to the rights and WMGC is seeking to directly award for the services with the nominated contractor.

Other Information

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