About HCC
Hybu Cig Cymru (“HCC”) undertakes activities relating to development and promotion of Welsh red meat. In particular, HCC is involved in red meat industry development initiatives and its activities include attendance at/holding trade fairs, information programmes, competitions and consumer demonstrations.
The Framework Agreements and Call-Off Contracts
HCC is seeking to set up framework agreements with one or more service providers (up to a maximum of eight service providers) for the provision of design and graphics services in connection with the development, promotion and marketing of Welsh red meat.
Organisations interested in bidding should note that any framework agreement awarded will be a call off agreement and that services will be commissioned on an “as and when” basis. As such, HCC does not guarantee that any party to a framework agreement will be commissioned to provide a minimum level of services or any services at all.
HCC's requirements for the Services
HCC requires tenderers who can provide high quality origination, artwork, design and layout services and related print services, where appropriate, for materials such as advertising, literature, datasheet and flyers, recipe cards booklets and technical booklets.
Such services and materials must be provided within the context of HCC's corporate and consumer brand guidelines (copies of which are available from Bryan Regan (contact details set out in paragraph 3)) and show innovation and flair.
It is important to HCC that projects called off will be carefully project managed so that the relevant services and materials are provided on time, within applicable budgets and to the high quality that HCC will demand. In this context, a successful tenderer may be required to provide services and materials in response to particularly short lead-times.
Some of the materials required may also need to be produced multilingually as well as in single languages other than English. Whilst HCC may produce the translated text for these purposes, the successful tenderer will need to show an awareness of how different languages would look when producing materials for HCC to ensure such materials are effective and visually appealing.
Tenderers will need to demonstrate that the individuals put forward to work on projects called off by HCC have the skills and experience to satisfy the above requirements.
Organisations interested in participating in this tender process are required to download an invitation to tender ("ITT") from HCC's website (details of which are set out in section I.1 above) and complete and submit a Response to ITT by the date shown in section VI.3.4 below.