In the city
Meetings, conferences and evening events: plan access and travel between programme sessions.
Plan this settingYour team · Your pace · Your setting
The right setting for your next event.
A city hotel, a countryside venue or an international gathering: start with your participants and event format to identify destinations to explore.
Your meetings, your support
The setting for your next gathering
Choose a setting and criteria that suit your participants, without assuming availability.
BME provides the human service. Sourcing Force is procurement software that complements your ERP or S2P.
01 · Criteria
The event first. The venue next.
Objectives, group size, participant origins, dates, accommodation and required services establish your selection criteria. Include accessibility, pace and technical needs.
Your participants
Starting points, numbers and access needs: prepare a setting that makes participation easier.
Your programme
Meetings, activities, evening events and any overnight stays: review the pace and spaces needed.
Your constraints
Dates and flexibility, budget, existing choices and services to delegate: document what will guide the search.
02 · Settings
Three ways to bring your team together.
These settings are planning ideas. They are not a catalogue of available venues or evidence of a Sourcing Force office.
Venue selection starts with your criteria. A geographical shortlist must rely on verified sources and conditions.
In the countryside
Time together away from the everyday: plan accommodation, transfers and the pace of activities.
Plan this setting
International
Bring a team together around a shared project: clarify travel, working languages and local arrangements.
Plan this setting03 · Access
Consider the full participant journey.
Record starting points, access needs and transfers to arrange. Allow suitable time within the programme without assuming timetables or journey times.
Actual conditions must be checked for each destination considered: an address, journey or capacity cannot be inferred from a suggested setting.
04 · Alternatives
Compare equivalent scopes.
Define your preferred setting, acceptable alternatives, date flexibility and expected inclusions. An existing venue or selected service can remain your starting point.
Planning tool
Your budget scope
Compare the same cost categories, inclusions and assumptions. The budget page provides editorial guidance without set prices or an automatic estimate.
Define cost categoriesMethods & reporting
Venues and suppliers
Prepare comparison criteria and retain your existing supplier panel. Naming a city does not select or reserve a venue.
Prepare the venue search05 · Your brief
Turn your idea into selection criteria.
In your brief, record your preferred setting, participants, dates, constraints and existing choices. Specify only the services to delegate.
The brief prepares your information; it does not launch a supplier search or confirm a reservation.
Planning tool
Your event planning brief
Gather your preferred setting, participants, dates and existing choices. Leave unknown details to clarify.
Prepare my briefEvent guidance
Corporate retreats and day meetings
Plan meeting rooms, any overnight stays, catering and meeting sessions around your programme.
Explore corporate retreatsEvent guidance
Team building
Shared objectives, pace and participation needs: plan activities around your event setting.
Explore team activitiesFind your starting point
Useful guidance, when you need it.
Do we need to choose a city before starting?
No. Your preferred setting, participants’ starting points and constraints can be enough to define your needs. A city or dates can remain open.
Do you offer a catalogue of available venues?
This page presents criteria and suggested settings. It does not offer a confirmed catalogue, live availability or pricing. Actual conditions must be checked before selection.
What if we have already selected a venue?
Keep that choice and specify only the services to delegate: catering, production, activities or other requirements. You do not need to start the entire event again.
Does a shortlist confirm a reservation?
No. Preparing a brief creates neither a purchase request nor an order. Confirmation follows the process applicable to each service, including BME receiving the official purchase order corresponding to the purchase request.
Your next event
Start with guidance. Build your project.
Gather your objectives, existing choices and services to clarify in an event brief.
Plan my event