Notice Information
Notice Title
Media Officer - Cainrgorms National Park Authority
Notice Description
The Cairngorms National Park Authority is seeking to appoint a consultant to work within its busy communications department. The consultant will be instrumental in promoting and highlighting the work of the Park Authority, showcasing everything from its nature and conservation efforts to the delivery of the ambitious Cairngorms 2030 programme.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Cairngorms National Park Authority is seeking to appoint a consultant to work within its busy communications department. The consultant will be instrumental in promoting and highlighting the work of the Park Authority, showcasing everything from its nature and conservation efforts to the delivery of the ambitious Cairngorms 2030 programme. The candidate should have experience of crisis communications, feature writing and interviewing, leading high-profile media campaigns, fostering good relationships with journalists and tailoring campaigns based on media monitoring analysis. The contract will be for three days a week, with the supplier also being required to be on-call roughly one weekend in six. Our expectations for this tender can be summarised as follows: - Offering strategic support to the wider Communications team on proactive communications, innovative story ideas and solutions for how they work across different platforms and audiences. - Adding creative flair and developing engaging content for the new Cairngorms National Park website. - Proactively pitching stories to media, securing a range of coverage in local and national media outlets. - Contributing to quarterly residents' magazine Cairn, and developing content for major strategic work including the National Park's Local Development Plan and the Cairngorms Nature Action Plan. - Supporting the ambitious Cairngorms 2030 programme - supported by The National Heritage Lottery Fund - which will see the Cairngorms become the UK's first net zero national park. Work will involve proactive media campaigns highlighting the 20 specific Cairngorms 2030 projects, ranging from health and wellbeing to land-use change, public transport and community empowerment. - Monitoring the press office inbox, triaging enquiries and providing timely reactive responses to media requests (we anticipate a 50/50 split between proactive and reactive work). - Utilising our media monitoring service to best effect to analyse coverage and target journalists and titles which reach a range of key audiences. - Attending team meetings and Board / planning meetings at the Park Authority headquarters in Grantown-on-Spey when required.
Renewal: The contract is anticipated to run from Tuesday 1 April 2025 to Tuesday 31 March 2026. The Park Authority reserves the right to extend the contract with the successful tenderer by mutual consent by a further year on two occasions - from 1 April 2026 and from 1 April 2027.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000792251
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=APR527266
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- PCS Notice - Website Contract Award 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
79341100 - Advertising consultancy services
79411000 - General management consultancy services
79411100 - Business development consultancy services
79413000 - Marketing management consultancy services
79416200 - Public relations consultancy services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £33,000 Under £100K
- Lots Value
- £33,000 Under £100K
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £33,000 Under £100K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 1 Apr 202510 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 18 Mar 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 27 Mar 202511 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- CAIRNGORMS NATIONAL PARK AUTHORITY
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Mikko Olavi Saari
- Contact Email
- kerry.gubbins@gov.scot, mikkosaari@cairngorms.co.uk, simon.lucas@gov.scot
- Contact Phone
- +44 1312446263, +44 1479873535
Buyer Location
- Locality
- GRANTOWN-ON-SPEY
- Postcode
- PH26 3HG
- Post Town
- Perth
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM1 East Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM13 City of Edinburgh
- Delivery Location
- TLM62 Inverness and Nairn, Moray, and Badenoch and Strathspey
-
- Local Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Electoral Ward
- Leith
- Westminster Constituency
- Edinburgh North and Leith
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=MAR525160&idx=1
4th March 2025 - ITT Brief for Media Officer contract (CNPA) -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/NoticeDownload/DownloadDocument.aspx?id=MAR525160&idx=2
4th March 2025 - CNPA T&Cs 2025 -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR525160
Media Officer - Cainrgorms National Park Authority - The Cairngorms National Park Authority is seeking to appoint a consultant to work within its busy communications department. The consultant will be instrumental in promoting and highlighting the work of the Park Authority, showcasing everything from its nature and conservation efforts to the delivery of the ambitious Cairngorms 2030 programme. -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=APR527266
Media Officer - Cainrgorms National Park Authority - The Cairngorms National Park Authority is seeking to appoint a consultant to work within its busy communications department. The consultant will be instrumental in promoting and highlighting the work of the Park Authority, showcasing everything from its nature and conservation efforts to the delivery of the ambitious Cairngorms 2030 programme.
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