Marketing Birmingham is the areas strategic marketing partnership and operates the leisure and business tourism programmes Visit and Meet Birmingham, as well as its inward investment programme, Business Birmingham. These programmes promote the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership area (Birmingham, Solihull, southern Staffordshire (Cannock Chase, Lichfield, Tamworth and East Staffordshire) and northern Worcestershire (Bromsgrove, Redditch and Wyre Forest)) and the Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership area (Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton) as a place to visit, meet and invest. The company is public/private funded by (i) Birmingham City Council; (ii) the European Regional Development Fund and (iii) private sector partners from across the areas business community.

Marketing Birmingham and ERDF partners, as detailed above, have been awarded European Regional Development Funding for the period to December 2015.

The purpose of this tender is to appoint PR and Event support for Business Birmingham the inward investment programme, and Visit and Meet Birmingham for the period January to October 2015.

Please refer to the tender brief for full requirements, process and timescales. To access the full tender brief, all suppliers must visit the Marketing Birmingham e-Procurement system to register interest and submit a tender bid.

e-Procurement https://in-tendhost.co.uk/marketingbirmingham/aspx/Home

Please note the deadline for full submission as outlined in the attached brief is no later than 12:00 noon GMT on Tuesday 9.12.2014.