For interested parties with expertise in food sector to express interest in being involved in Dublin City Council’s Eat the Streets Festival.

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Dublin City Council’s Climate Action Team is seeking responses from interested parties to be involved in the Eat the Streets Festival. The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN)/Request for Information (RFI) is to: • Identify chefs and restaurants keen to teach and share their knowledge of food, in particular sustainable and seasonal eating. • Identify food growers and producers keen to teach and share their knowledge of growing and producing. • Identify individuals and small businesses with expertise in food and nutrition, food distribution, food waste, and food history. • Identify artists with an interest in communicating the relationship between food and climate change. The expected outcomes of this RFI is to establish a list of interested parties to approach to be involved in the Eat the Streets Festival! Lot 1: 1. Introduction to this PIN/RFI Dublin City Council’s Climate Action Team is seeking responses from interested parties to be involved in the Eat the Streets Festival. The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN)/Request for Information (RFI) is to: • Identify chefs and restaurants keen to teach and share their knowledge of food, in particular sustainable and seasonal eating. • Identify food growers and producers keen to teach and share their knowledge of growing and producing. • Identify individuals and small businesses with expertise in food and nutrition, food distribution, food waste, and food history. • Identify artists with an interest in communicating the relationship between food and climate change. The expected outcomes of this RFI is to establish a list of interested parties to approach to be involved in the Eat the Streets Festival! 2. About the Project Eat the Streets In June 2021 the first Eat the Streets Festival! explored Dublin’s rich food history by asking people, young and old to join us on a journey to Grow! Cook! Create! And Discover! Local chefs with a passion for Irish produce taught us how to celebrate Dublin’s vegetable roads taking recipes shared by young people and adding their twists and telling stories along the way in a series of five Cook Alongs. Growers, farmers, experts and foodies shared their knowledge in a series of five After Dinner Chats exploring our past, present and future relationship with food. Knowing that we have merely scratched the surface of Dublin’s rich food history and culture we are working to develop the second Eat the Streets Festival. Food not only provides us with nourishment but is the biggest and probably oldest social connector and integrator - sharing a meal, we tell stories that bind us together. In growing and placing our hands in the soil, we connect with nature. We want Eat the Streets! to connect people to each other, and to nature. By growing these connections Dublin flourishes socially, environmentally and economically. 3. Important Information Without prejudice to competition in the marketplace, this Prior Information Notice (PIN) / Request for Information (RFI) is being used to invite interested economic operators to participate in market consultation in respect of expertise sought for Eat the Streets as stated in the introduction. The purpose of this market consultation is to identify interested parties with expertise and experience in the food sector as it pertains to Eat the Streets. Dublin City Council will use this market consultation to establish a list of interested parties to be included in a subsequent competition for event management.