# Merchandising Licensing Consultancy

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [FORESTRY COMMISSION](/buyers/forestry-commission/contract-awards)
- Published: 20 September 2022
- Planned start: 5 December 2022
- Planned end: 31 March 2023
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: c28c1470-b76b-4953-ad43-3e97e3e012b0-573048
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-5a72cff0-50a5-40ec-b7d1-19b1d7ae1773

## 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\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c28c1470-b76b-4953-ad43-3e97e3e012b0-573048)