Formal Tender for Large Format Advertising & Sponsorship Sites on Behalf of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council - AWARD

Formal Tender for Large Format Advertising & Sponsorship Sites on Behalf of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, lying immediately to the west of Birmingham. Along with the adjoining boroughs of Walsall, Dudley and Wolverhampton, Sandwell makes up the area known as the Black Country, a compact and rapidly modernising urban area of around 1,080,000 people, of whom 308,000 live in Sandwell itself (2011 census).

The Borough is at the very heart of the national motorway network and includes within its boundaries the intersection of the M5 and M6 motorways, along with four further motorway junctions, which together offer unparalleled access to all parts of the UK. Sandwell also has a mainline railway station at Sandwell and Dudley, which is on the West Coast main line and is just 10 minutes from Birmingham city centre.

Midland Metro line 1 runs from Wolverhampton to Birmingham, with 10 stations within the borough, all offering swift and direct connections to all parts of the two city centres. The Borough is made up of six towns, the most important of which is West Bromwich, identified as a strategic town centre in the Black Country core strategy and currently experiencing a period of intense redevelopment and expansion, while just 1 Km from Junction 1 of the M5.

The other five towns of Sandwell are Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Smethwick, Tipton and Wednesbury. Tenders are invited for licence concessions for a number of large format advertising & sponsorship sites.

The successful bidder will be responsible for the installation and maintenance of large advertising formats across the borough and for selling of advertising on these formats to realise a guaranteed income to the Council. The Council will be using the In-tend e-Tendering System for this Procurement exercise, please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc to access the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal.

From here you will be able to register your company, express an interest in the opportunity, and gain immediate access to the Quotation document or other related documents. In Order To View a On-Line Questionnaire (if applicable) or Submit a Quotation, you will be required to` Opt-In`.

Please be mindful that if you are cut and pasting your question responses onto the On-Line Questionnaire that you do so from a notepad document, this is due to the fact that some special characters are not accepted within the On-Line Questionnaire. For a Step by Step user guide to the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal please click on the `Guidance for Suppliers` section of the website.

All procurement responses must be carried out via the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal. Closing date: XXXXXXXXX 2018 at 15:00hrs