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.

The purpose of the tender is to appoint a supplier for the services related to overseas business development to support requirements for Marketing Birmingham and ERDF partners stated above.

All suppliers MUST visit the Marketing Birmingham e-procurement system to register and access the tender document and submit a tender bid https://in-tendhost.co.uk/marketingbirmingham/aspx/Home

Please note the deadline for full submission as outlined in the tender brief is no later than 12 noon on Tuesday 14.10.2014.