---
title: "Marketing Activities"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0657fa"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "TRANSPORT FOR LONDON"
published: "2026-02-19"
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# Marketing Activities

Buyer: TRANSPORT FOR LONDON  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0657fa

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## Summary

Transport for London (TfL) completed a contracting process for providing marketing activities, categorised under marketing services. The tender aimed to secure full creative services, including strategic campaign direction and multimedia outputs, alongside event and experiential offerings. With a focus on Places for London, the procurement process involved a limited method, opting against prior publication. The services span a considerable geographical reach covering regions like UKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ, and UKK. While the tender did involve the award stage, key notable dates include the signing of the contract on 16th February 2026.

This tender offers significant opportunities for businesses specialising in creative and large-format printing services, particularly those adept in serving business-to-business (B2B) audiences. Since Places for London aims to achieve an impressive annual turnover of £89 million, there is considerable growth potential for businesses capable of delivering large campaign artworks and technical outputs in diverse operational settings. The awarded contract has been actively engaging the Definition Group, indicating a focus on substantial expertise and capability in this sector. Businesses looking for expansion in creative media and property-related marketing would find this tender particularly beneficial. The competitive criteria were primarily based on technical competencies, accounting for 60% of the consideration, thus favouring firms with strong technical acumen and experience.

## Notice

Provide full creative services, including but not limited to, strategic campaign direction, design, multimedia output, event and experiential, print and installation as required. This will work closely with Places for London

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Places for London (Places), needs the support of external creative agencies to assist them with meeting the BU annual turnover figure of PS89m, which provides significant income into TfL and is set to grow considerably over the coming years. Whilst the needs of Places are similar to TfL, they differ mainly in the target audience, with their main target audiences being business to business (B2B). This along with a property derived backdrop, the supply bases are of a similar nature but differ slightly. Places requirements include the manufacturing of large print format campaign artwork, as well as technical aspects including survey sites, create artwork schematics and safely install artwork within both operational and non-operational settings.

Options: This is a two year contract with the option to extend plus 1, plus 1

### Procurement Information

Call off from CCS RM6124 DPS - Under PCR2015. Categories were filtered by selection available on the CCS. All suppliers were sent an early market engagement to complete and would allow us to register them to SAP Ariba. An expression of interest, was then sent out to all suppliers a further two times to allow us to register them to SAP Ariba

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015166-2026 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 19 Feb 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 16 Feb 2026 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | TRANSPORT FOR LONDON |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | East London |
| Postcode | E20 1JN |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI41 Hackney and Newham |
| Local authority | Newham |
| Electoral ward | Stratford Olympic Park |
| Westminster constituency | Stratford and Bow |
| Delivery location | TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | DEFINITION GROUP |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 79342000 - Marketing services

## Release History

- 19 Feb 2026 at 11:47 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015166-2026

## Notice URLs

- https://www.tfl.gov.uk/info-for/suppliers-and-contractors/

## Provenance

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