UK SBS PS18205 Playful Experience for The Natural Environment Research Council - NERC

The final date and time for the submission of bids is 30th July 2018 at 11:00 DO NOT apply directly to the buyer. All tender information MUST be submitted through the CCS eSourcing Portal.

NERC is looking for playful experience producers to develop an experience that wows visitors and engages them with the relevance of environmental science research to daily life and inspires people to use evidence in their decision-making (for example, in considering their own plastic waste or local air pollution). The experience will be offered on 30 November 2018 as part of one of the Natural History Museum's monthly evening events and entry will be free.

NERC is working in partnership with the NHM to deliver a number of other talks and activities as part of the evening. The purpose of this tender is to find creative producers to develop an experience that will be a headline, unique/exclusive part of the evening.

It is important that the experience is repeatable or has another strong legacy element and that bidders include plans and costs for how the experience could be delivered again to different venues in the UK after 30 November. The experience will be developed in partnership with NERC and the NHM and incorporate up-to-date research and possibly items from the Museum's collection.

Visitors will feel excited and empowered by the experience to be a part of a future where the environment and people are in balance. The experience will encapsulate the following ideas: positive, inspiring, exciting, constructive, lively, empowering, balancing people and planet.

It will avoid negativity around the Anthropocene and focus on an attainable positive vision of the future where planet and people succeed together. Please make sure that you provide sufficient detail of you requirement so that potential suppliers will have a full understanding of what is required.

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