Notice Information
Notice Title
Email Marketing
Notice Description
We send around 30 million emails per year to over 325,000 subscribers, featuring a wide variety of content and targeted at a wide variety of audience and stakeholder groups. Email remains our single most effective way of directly communicating with our customers, and has proven particularly effective throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Our main weekly email update is sent to just over 325,000 subscribers, and contains a mix of content that reflects the public-facing work and services offered by The National Archives. We also send several supplementary mailings to subscribers on top of this update, primarily retail promotions for our online shop and events programme, targeted at subsets of our mailing list. We also distribute a number of specialist campaigns, focused on different areas of our work, to various stakeholder lists. The subscriber numbers above are expected to grow during the term of the contract - up to about 370,000 subscribers and 36 million emails sent. Our current email marketing contract expires at the end of April 2023, and we are looking for a supplier who will not only deliver this service for us from 1 May 2023, but ensure a seamless transition between the end of the existing contract and service commencement under this new contract; we therefore expect this contract to commence on or before 1 April 2023 to facilitate this handover period.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-b5fd17-5275189a-0ede-40af-beb9-e66a2a9e95de
- Publication Source
- Contracts Finder
- Latest Notice
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/53faff94-7f27-45bc-9c27-c7e835b93c00
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £126,390 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- £178,215 £100K-£500K
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 24 Mar 20261 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 3 Feb 2023Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 2 Mar 20233 years ago
- Contract Period
- 30 Mar 2023 - 30 Apr 2027 4-5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- RICHMOND
- Postcode
- TW9 4DU
- Post Town
- Twickenham
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI7 Outer London - West and North West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI75 Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Electoral Ward
- Kew
- Westminster Constituency
- Richmond Park
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/53faff94-7f27-45bc-9c27-c7e835b93c00
23rd March 2023 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder -
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/61a51d90-58e5-4830-b650-fb9221e96d32
24th January 2023 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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