Business Birmingham Inward Investment Lead Generation.

Descriptions

Marketing Birmingham is the area's 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 Birmingham and its wider area.Business Birmingham's activity targets both UK and foreign owned investors including large and small to medium sized enterprises as well as start-ups investing in the project area. Our target sectors are business, professional and financial services (BPFS), IT, electronics and communications (ITEC), food and drink, life sciences and advanced engineering.The aim of this project is to appoint a supplier(s) for inward investment lead generation to the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Partnership area (Greater Birmingham) and services associated with in-market representation. The lead generation activity will be fully aligned with the ERDF Investing in Greater Birmingham programme, Business Birmingham's strategic direction and will target potential investors for the Project Area. The target geographies of Business Birmingham are North America, Europe, China, India, Australia and Japan. The target sectors of Business Birmingham funded through this programme are business, professional and financial services (BPFS), IT, electronics and communications (ITEC), food and drink, low carbon and life sciences. The list of target geographies and sectors is by no means exclusive.The Business Birmingham inward investment programme is funded by a number of sources including the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Birmingham City Council via a Service Level Agreement.Please refer to the tender brief for full requirements, process and time-scales. 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/HomePlease note the deadline for full submission as outlined in the attached brief is no later than 12:00 noon BST on Wednesday, 27.4.2016.