Notice Information
Notice Title
Higher Education Marketing Agency to Support the Implementation of Student Recruitment Campaigns
Notice Description
The University of Chester invited tenders for a specialist Higher Education marketing agency through the UK Open Procedure under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 to support primarily with media planning and buying for its student recruitment campaigns. This will be a two-year contract with the option to extend for a further 24-months on a year-by-year basis. Although the University was looking for an agency to help principally with media planning and buying, the expectation is that the successful agency will work collaboratively with the University on campaign strategy, providing relevant audience, market, and competitor insights to help the University gain a competitive advantage. Further to this, from time-to-time, the University may wish to tap into any creative services available within the agency to help with the production of creative assets and development of our messaging strategy.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The specific requirements of this contract are for the implementation of our 2024, 2025 and 2026 UK student recruitment campaigns. It should be noted that a media plan for the pre-application stage of the 2024 recruitment campaign is already being implemented, so the initial focus, following this award, will be on post application conversion and late applications for the 2024 cycle, as well as early engagement for the 2025 cycle. Further to this, we may also require support for postgraduate and international student recruitment campaigns. Further details were available in the tender documents.Please note the estimated total value includes the optional extension periods. The values stated in this notice are not for the marketing agency fees, but are for the total budget estimated across the potential 4 years of this contract for all associated media and advertising costs. The Marketing Agency costs are estimated to be between PS200,000 and PS250,000 depending upon actual requirements across the potential 4 years of this contract.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-040906
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/037706-2023
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79342000 - Marketing services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £3,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £3,000,000 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 21 Dec 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 8 Nov 2023Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 19 Dec 20232 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER
- Contact Name
- Procurement Services
- Contact Email
- procurement@chester.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CHESTER
- Postcode
- CH1 4BJ
- Post Town
- Chester
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLD North West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLD6 Cheshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLD63 Cheshire West and Chester
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Electoral Ward
- Chester City & the Garden Quarter
- Westminster Constituency
- Chester North and Neston
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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