Tender Summary

Merchandising Licensing Consultancy

Buying Organisation

FORESTRY COMMISSION

Contract Value

Unknown

Suitable for SMEs

Yes

Suitable for VCSEs

Yes

Tender Description

We are looking to work with a consultant to understand the scale of the opportunity for Forestry England around brand licensing partnerships and merchandising.

We are looking for someone with specialist experience of developing a merchandising and licensing strategy for rights holding organisations like Forestry England.

The required outputs from this contract will be as follows:

To help us achieve our objectives, we are looking for a consultant to write a business plan with a 5-year outlook, around brand licencing and merchandising opportunities, that sets out:

The scale of the opportunity over the next five years, within our existing infrastructure;
The key dependencies to achieving this potential;
Risks, and
Recommendations for resource and costs to take the plan forward

This strategy development will require:
Visits to some of our most popular forest centres to view and assess our existing infrastructure;
Internal consultation with a range of colleagues from different departments (e.g. Digital, Operations, Brand), and
Online/ desk-based research for benchmarking and market research

Please refer to the attached document for further information regarding the requirement and details of how to submit your response.

Tender categories (products & services required)

Business and management consultancy and related services (CPV 79400000)

Region

North East (UKC)

Buyer Information