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    "date": "2022-09-08T15:52:10+01:00",
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    "description": "**** Please note, this is a Contract Award Notice **** All suppliers who wish to respond to this contract notice must request a pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) by using the web link in Section I.3 (www.thameswater.co.uk/procurement). From your response to the link in Section I.3 or above, Thames Water's Procurement Support Centre will send you an email providing login details for our eSourcing system (i.e. IASTA Smartsource). To complete the PQQ you will need to login to IASTA Smartsource. If the project requires it, you will receive an additional and separate survey to complete for Data Protection. Note - The client may be Thames Water Utilities Limited or another company within the Kemble Water group structure.",
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        "legalBasis": {
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            "scheme": "CELEX"
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        "title": "Creative Agency",
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            "description": "Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security"
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        "description": "Thames Water are looking for a creative agency to create and deliver innovative and engaging content which is customer centric and supports the overall strategy to improve customer perception, in turn improving our C-MeX and NPS performance",
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                "description": "Thames Water are seeking a creative agency partner to create and deliver innovative and engaging content which is customer centric and supports the overall strategy to improve customer perception, in turn improving our C-MeX and NPS performance. The selected provider will be expected to offer a full creative agency service including but not limited to campaign strategy, content provision, brand & marketing strategy covering our brand building and behavioural change campaigns throughout the annual calendars",
                "value": {
                    "amount": 6000000,
                    "currency": "GBP"
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                "hasRenewal": true,
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                    "description": "Thames Water envisages that the contract will be awarded for an initial term of 3 years with options to extend up to a maximum duration of 8 years."
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                    "variantPolicy": "allowed"
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                "status": "cancelled"
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        "participationFees": [
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                "id": "1",
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        "submissionMethod": [
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        "submissionMethodDetails": "https://www.thameswater.co.uk/about-us/our-suppliers/procurement",
        "otherRequirements": {
            "reductionCriteria": "As detailed in section VI.3 and PQQ."
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            "depositsGuarantees": "Bonds and/or parent company guarantees of performance and financial standing may be required.",
            "languages": [
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            "financialTerms": "Specified in Invitation to Negotiate Document.",
            "tendererLegalForm": "Consortia may be required to form a legal entity prior to award",
            "hasElectronicOrdering": true,
            "hasElectronicPayment": true
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        "procurementMethod": "selective",
        "procurementMethodDetails": "Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition",
        "tenderPeriod": {
            "endDate": "2022-05-24T12:00:00+01:00"
        },
        "hasRecurrence": false,
        "techniques": {
            "hasFrameworkAgreement": true
        },
        "reviewDetails": "Thames Water Utilities Limited will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (SI 2016 No 274) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)."
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