Notice of a Request For Proposal for Data Measurement Services

This tender aims at providing the interested parties the opportunity to submit proposals for the following components:

SCOPE OF WORK

  • Package 1 – Television / OTT and Sponsorship Tracking

  • Package 2 – Social Media Tracking

  • Package 3 – Sponsorship Analysis for Package 2

  • Package 4 – Online / Print and Sponsorship Tracking

The exact requirements for each of the packages will be listed in the sections below.

Package 1 – Television / OTT and Sponsorship Tracking:

IBU is looking for an analysis of its global television and OTT footprint and reach. The following approach is required

1. Data handling, plausibility checks and integration of all data supplied by EBU. This will be line-by-line data in excel format for all EBU members which will supply the following information:

  • Country and broadcasting channel

  • Date and Time of the Programme

  • Length of the biathlon coverage split by discipline and gender (e.g. men’s pursuit or women’s mass start)

  • Average programme audience for each programme

  • Reach for each programme

  • Viewer hours per discipline and gender for each programme

2. Verification of rights holders activities (list of rights holders will be supplied by IBU) in non EBU markets (please allow for a maximum of 5-8 markets that will need to be covered to include USA, Canada and Korea).

3. Analysis of secondary coverage – news, sports magazines etc.

  • Markets to be covered – Germany, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland.

  • Data to be supplied

    • TV coverage in hours: minutes by event and country

    • Cumulated audience by event and country

    • Viewer hours by event and country

4. OTT – integration of all EBU supplied data for the rights holders as well as all data from eurovisionsports.tv. Please specify, if you can track or otherwise supply any information on Peacock in the US or other platforms

5. Optional – detailed analysis of Eurosport coverage

  • Which markets / feeds show coverage and how much

  • Audiences per market

  • Viewer hours per market

6. Optional – Sponsorship Analysis

  • Analysis of the host city exposure for the World Championships (incl. beauty / postcard shots) to deliver the following data sets:

    • Visibility in hrs:min by source and country

    • Total share of visibility

    • AEV in € - please specify your methodological approach

  • Analysis of up to 5 sponsors for the national federations

    • Visibilty in hrs:min by source and country

    • AEV in € - please specify your methodological approach

    • Please provide a separate quote for this incl. a final report, as this will be presented to the NF’s

  • Period of analysis

    • 1 November 2024 – 30 June 2026

  • Reporting

    • One full in person presentation at the end of each season including detailed pdf

    • Optional – dashboard access

Package 2 – Earned Social Media Tracking:

Please provide your definitions and approach of the following points:

  • How do you track and monitor the earned channels – i.e. will you need IBU to provide a list of channels/tags/hashtags, do you have a standardised panel, do you cover globally?

  • Please specify, which KPI’s you can deliver and how these are defined:

    • Reach

    • Impressions

    • Unique Users (if available)

    • Video Views

    • Engagement

    • Exposure values (for package 3) – videos vs still shots / photos

    • Overall methodology – please provide as much information on your methodology especially around the following elements:

      • data capturing, possible sample approaches

      • Audience / Reach modelling and projections

      • Sponsorship evaluations

IBU is looking to get a complete understanding of their sport’s global social media impact. To achieve this, the following approach is required:

  • Data handling and integration of core KPI’s supplied by IBU from it’s owned and operated channels (via Emplify and Google Analytics)

  • Tracking of earned media through a comprehensive screening and analysis of all 3rd party channels as detailed below:

    • National Federations

    • Athletes

    • Any biathlon specific platforms incl. those of the OC’s

    • All broadcaster platforms

    • All relevant general sports and general interest sites: (e.g. L’Equipe, USA Today, VG etc.)

  • Languages – English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Czech, Polish and Spanish,

  • Media Monitoring for all earned channels as specified above:

    • Total number of posts – split by platform, language / market and event

    • Audiences - Reach / Impressions / Unique – split by platform, language / market and event

    • Engagement – split by platform, language / market and event

    • Any other qualitative KPI’s on consumption you might be able to offer (similar to Viewer Hours for TV)

    • Follower development for all national federations

  • Reporting

    • One full in person presentation at the end of each season including detailed pdf

    • Monthly update in online dashboard

  • Period of analysis

    • 1 November 2024 – 30 June 2026

Package 3 – Earned Social Media Sponsorship Analysis:

For the social media coverage as captured and analysed under package 2, IBU is looking to receive a sponsorship analysis of up to 15 brands with the following KPI’s to be delivered:

  • Visibility per sponsor – split by source (i.e. panels, start numbers, backdrops etc.) and event

  • Exposure value per sponsor – split by source (i.e. panels, start numbers, backdrops etc.) and event. Important please detail your approach

  • Share of branded posts

  • All KPI’s as listed above split by video and photos (photo is nice to have)

Package 4 – Online Tracking:

IBU is looking to get a complete understanding of their sport’s global social media impact. To achieve this, the following approach is required:

  • Tracking of any online coverage through a comprehensive screening and analysis of all 3rd party channels as detailed below:

    • National Federations website

    • Any biathlon specific website incl. those of the OC’s

    • All broadcaster websites

    • All relevant general sports and general interest sites: (e.g. L’Equipe, USA Today, VG etc.)

  • Languages – English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Czech, Polish and Spanish

  • Media Monitoring for all websites as specified above:

    • Total number of articles – split by country and type of website

    • Reach – split by country and type of website

  • Optional – Sponsorship Analysis for the seven main global partners of IBU plus the timing and scoring supplier

    • Number of articles with visibility – share of branded articles

    • Visibility per sponsor split by source, event and type of exposure (i.e. photo or video)

    • AVE per sponsor split by source, event and type of exposure

  • Reporting

    • One full in person presentation at the end of each season including detailed pdf

    • Monthly update in online dashboard

    • Optional – one report for all sponsors (excel delivery of the results)

  • Period of analysis

    • 1 November 2024 – 30 June 2026

QUOTATION

Please provide separate costs per package as well as a package price in case all packages should be commissioned to the same provider. All costs must be broken down as follows:

Package 1:

  • Please provide one price for the essential properties and one for the optional properties.

  • Please provide a separate quote for the analysis of the NF sponsors

Package 2:

  • Please provide separate prices as follows:

    • Tracking and analysis of all 3rd party channels

    • Data integration of the IBU owned and operated channels

Package 3:

  • Please provide the full package price

Package 4:

  • Please provide a package price for the media monitoring

  • Please provide a separate price for the additional sponsorship analysis based on

    • The full season

    • An extrapolation approach covering two (2) World Cups and the World Championships

All prices (Gross) need to be in Euro (€)

IBU will evaluate all proposals based on the following criteria.

  1. To ensure consideration for this RFP, a bidder’s proposal should be complete and include all of the following criteria:

    1. Overall proposal suitability; proposed services must meet the scope and needs as set-out in each package and be presented in a clear and organized manner

    2. Experience; parties will be evaluated on their experience as it pertains to the scope of services for packages 1 & 2 or similar services. Please provide 2 “best-practice” case studies.

    3. Cost and Value; parties will be evaluated on the costs related to the delivery of the services

    4. Flexibility of services / modular services concepts; parties will be evaluated on their flexibility in offering suitable services and an economical modular concept for IBU’s evolving needs

  2. Data use; parties will be evaluated on their willingness to allow IBU to use data externally and with their stakeholders.

TIMELINE

October 10th, 2024

RFP sent to all interested parties by IBU

October 14th, 2024

Confirmation of participation

By October 18th, 2024

Bidder request for clarifications / written submission of questions

By October 25th, 2024

Submission of proposals

Until October 31st, 2024

Pitch Presentation of shortlisted companies

By November 10th, 2024

Awarding of (a) candidate(s) who best suit(s) IBU’s requirements

For any additional questions, please send an email to lorenzo.giovacchini@ibu.at

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