Published date: 15 January 2025
Open opportunity - This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.
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Closing: 10 February 2025, 9:30am
Contract summary
Industry
Web servers - 48825000
Web server software development services - 72212222
World wide web (www) site design services - 72413000
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World wide web (www) site operation host services - 72415000
Location of contract
SO41 9ZG
Value of contract
£20,000 to £80,000
Procurement reference
NFNPA - 0063
Published date
15 January 2025
Closing date
10 February 2025
Closing time
9:30am
Contract start date
24 February 2025
Contract end date
1 March 2026
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
What is an open procedure (above threshold)?
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to provide the design and development of a new website plus three linked microsites with hosting and support for the New Forest National Park Authority (NPA).
The New Forest National Park is one of the UK's 15 national parks - a world capital for wildlife with the greatest proportion of land internationally-protected for nature conservation of any local authority. It also sees 15 million day visits a year and has 34,000 residents. Our National Park is a living, working landscape for all with a rich tradition of 'commoning' - it is shaped by the free-roaming animals who are known as the 'architects of the Forest'.
Our website serves as a crucial gateway, providing access to all, services to residents and fostering stakeholder engagement to ensure the future wellbeing of this exceptional place.
The Authority wishes to deliver a new website that inspires a sense of pride in our iconic National Park, helps people to enjoy and help care for it and that is built around our vision:
'A national beacon for a sustainable future where nature and people flourish.'
This is summarised in our strapline:
'Protecting together - shaping tomorrow'
The National Park has nine 'special qualities' which help define it:
• The New Forest's outstanding natural beauty: the sights, sounds and smells of ancient woodland with large veteran trees, heathland, bog, autumn colour and an unspoilt coastline, with views of the Solent and Isle of Wight.
• An extraordinary diversity of plants and animals and habitats of national and international importance.
• A unique historic, cultural and archaeological heritage, from Royal hunting ground, to ship-building, salt making and 500 years of military coastal defence.
• An historic commoning system, that maintains so much of what people know and love as 'the New Forest' forming the heart of a working landscape based on farming and forestry.
• The iconic New Forest pony together with donkeys, pigs and cattle roaming free
• Tranquillity in the midst of the busy, built up south of England.
• Wonderful opportunities for quiet recreation, learning and discovery in one of the last extensive gentle landscapes in the south including unmatched open access on foot and horseback.
• A healthy environment: fresh air, clean water, local produce and a sense of 'wildness'
• Strong and distinctive local communities with a real pride in and sense of identity with their local area.
How to apply
Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.
About the buyer
Contact name
Tender Team
Address
Town Hall
LYMINGTON
SO419ZG
England
Telephone
01590 646678
Email
tender@newforestnpa.gov.uk
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