Tees-Swale: Environmental Community Art Programme Development and Delivery

This contract is being let on behalf of the North Pennines AONB Partnership for Tees-Swale: Environmental Community Arts Programme - development and delivery. An experienced arts professional or arts team is required to work with the Tees-Swale team to develop and deliver an arts programme to encourage people to engage with the landscape and to understand the ecosystem services delivered by the uplands.

The contractor will need to use their creativity to identify potential artistic opportunities within the overall Scheme, ensuring that the potential works are community-led and embedded within the Tees-Swale programme. They will need to identify suitable artists to deliver those opportunities (if needed) and produce a costed delivery programme for years 1 to 5 of the scheme, against an agreed budget. The programme of activity needs to be shared between Upper Teesdale and Swaledale.

In the development phase the contractor is also required to prepare a funding application to Arts Council England to raise match funding for this element of the project. This application is likely to be for over £50,000, with a further application due in the delivery phase

This procurement is issued under an Open OJEU Procedure under Section 7 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

The expected start date for the proposed contract is 01/10/2019. The expected end date for the proposed contract is 31/08/2025.