Notice Information
Notice Title
Media Relations - Guildhall School
Notice Description
The City of London Corporation (the City) invited Tenders for the provision of Media Relations Services.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The City of London Corporation required a Media Relations Contractor for the Guildhall School. The awarded supplier will: Deliver the objectives of Guildhall School's PR strategy, proactively seeking positive media coverage and engagement across the School's strategic objectives. Act as the School's press office, handling reactive media enquiries and working with the School to identify appropriate responses and spokespeople/content; providing staff presence to support with interviews, filming, and press desks as required. Drive profile for the School via media coverage of the School's substantial events programme, achieving preview coverage, listings, attendance by critics and reviews. Support the School on reputational and crisis communications, providing expert advice and immediate management of sensitive and complex issues that may receive media attention, including liaison with the central City of London communications team. Support brand awareness by proactively seeking opportunities for Guildhall academic/artistic staff to comment on industry topics or provide expert opinion in the media. Engage with influencers and undertaking digital media relations activity, coordinating with the School's own social media and digital marketing activity (nb. the School manages its own social media presence and channels). Provide daily media clippings summaries, both featuring the School and in order to share wider industry news, recording and retaining relevant clippings, and producing digital media clippings books on request. Work with the School's marketing and communications team to revise and renew the PR strategy as required. The duration of the contract is three (3) years, subject to the right of the City (at its sole discretion) to exercise its right to extend the Contract by up to two (2) years. The maximum length of the contract is therefore five (5) years.
Renewal: The contract is expected to be for three (3) years, with an option to extend for a further two (2) years.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0455ad
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/031349-2024
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning 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
79416000 - Public relations services
79416100 - Public relations management services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £250,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £250,000 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 1 Oct 20241 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 28 Jun 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 2 Jun 2024Expired
- Award Date
- 24 Sep 20241 years ago
- Contract Period
- 30 Sep 2024 - 30 Sep 2027 2-3 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- daria.faeti@cityoflondon.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2076063030
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LONDON
- Postcode
- EC2P 2EJ
- Post Town
- Central London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI43 Haringey and Islington
- Delivery Location
- TLI London, TLI31 Camden and City of London
-
- Local Authority
- Islington
- Electoral Ward
- Clerkenwell
- Westminster Constituency
- Islington South and Finsbury
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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