Event Management Company for West Midlands Tourism Awards Delivery Services Contract

WMGC intends to award an Event Management company (EMC) with a contract for event management - to deliver a successful West Midlands Awards for Excellence events in 2022 and 2023 (West Midlands Tourism Awards). The winning EMC will be responsible for the successful delivery of a live Awards for Excellence event in a West Midlands venue for circa. 300 people, in 2022 and 2023.

The BATP will use the Games to promote the tourism offer of Birmingham, the West Midlands and the wider UK to generate economic growth. Focusing primarily on key Commonwealth markets and the UK, the Games presents a unique opportunity to attract additional domestic and overseas visitors, increasing their spend when they arrive here.

As part of this programme, we want to celebrate the tourism businesses who boost the West Midlands' reputation as a world-class destination for national and international visitors.

The West Midlands Tourism Awards will align with the annual awards cycle set out by VisitEngland through the national framework, the "Awards for Excellence", which begins with a series of local /regional competitions and feeds up to the national VisitEngland Awards for Excellence.

England's tourism awards champion the very best of the country's tourism industry, celebrating quality, innovation and best practice, and this event will provide the region with:

• PR hooks for regional, national and international press activity.
• An independent audit of the region's best tourism and hospitality businesses.
• A celebration of industry best practice, sustainability and innovation.
• An opportunity to push the gold and silver award winners through to the National Awards for Excellence competition.

This tender is for an event management company who will need to plan, manage and deliver a memorable, high-quality awards event in the best of the region's venues to cater for around 300 guests and award winners. Additional information: Any uplift to the proposed contract will be inline with PCR 2015 Regulation 72 modification of contracts during their term irregardless of value. For the activation of this clause to be applied the event leading to scope increase must be unforeseen.