Purpose of this call for tenders:
The purpose of this call for tenders is the production of at least four (4) promotional videos of maximum two (2) minutes each to illustrate EU's Internet of Things vision as well as current policy actions and research activities.
The European Commission, through the produced videos, seeks to:
- Inform EU citizens and businesses about the positive current and future aspects and benefits of IoT technology and especially its impact on everyday life and economy
- Present EU's IoT current and future policy actions (EU's IoT vision)
- Associate the EU's policy actions with the future of the technology (explain why the EU is putting forward policy actions)
- Make a link with the ongoing EU research and especially with the ongoing IoT large scale pilots (Why EU invests in IoT research and innovation?)
The contractor is asked to provide appealing and simple to understand stories and messages based on examples. The examples can be related to the use cases of the IoT large scale pilots.
The style of the promotional videos should be creative and appealing, eye-catching, fast-paced and modern, effectively communicating the message to the target audience. The videos should attract attention, eventually shock then reassure – possibly obtained by surprise elements, disturbing situations and the use of humour. The video should be as self-explanatory as possible, but voice-over could be used as well as nice graphics. However, the videos cannot be fully animated or 100% cartoon based. It should show real people and covered by realism but with a futuristic approach. The videos should entertain and inform the audience.
Specifically, tasks will include:
- Creating at least two draft concepts
- Writing a clear storyboard/scenario based on the final selected concept
- Creating any necessary animated and/or other graphics
- Shooting
- Renting the right equipment
- Paying the right experts and actors
- Buying and adding music
- Buying and using any necessary images/videos/clips from bank stock
- Using a voice-over (English native speaker) when necessary
- Editing
- Producing HD quality videos (final deliverable)
- Submitting all the produced footage to the European Commission
Interested economic operators can express their interest to participate in the call for tender until August 10th 2017 via email.
No evaluation is performed at this stage. All the economic operators who have expressed their interest to participate in this procurement procedure within the above-mentioned deadline will be subsequently invited to submit a tender. The contracting authority reserves the right to also invite economic operators not included in the list of interested economic operators who responded to this ex-ante advertisement.
An economic operator may consider submitting a tender as a single entity or in collaboration with other service providers: either by submitting a joint tender with (a) partner(s) (assuming joint and several liability towards the contracting authority for the performance of the contract) and/or through subcontracting. In case of a joint tender with (a) partner(s), all partners must be identified in the expression of interest and cannot be modified at a further stage of the procurement procedure.
Only the candidates invited by the contracting authority to participate in this procurement procedure will be admissible.
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