Awarded contract

Provision of a Strategic Media Planning Agency

Details

Supplier(s)
OMD Group Ltd
Value
£244,676
Duration
2 years
Topic
Aeral advertising services
Published
3 April 2025

Tender description

People who have been infected and affected as a result of infected blood and blood products, have been suffering and campaigning for years. As a result, in 2017 a public inquiry, chaired by Sir Brian Langstaff, was set up to examine the circumstances that led to individuals being contaminated. The IBCA was brought into existence to implement an Infected Blood Compensation Scheme, which will provide financial compensation to victims of infected blood, along with those affected as a result, on a UK-wide basis. To reach all of those infected and affected we need to develop a fully integrated communications strategy and marketing campaign, which we aim to implement from April 2025, and will potentially last for many years. The IBCA require a strategic planning and media agency to work as part of an integrated agency team to build on their initial audience segmentation and strategic framework. The Supplier will be required to develop a media plan that is evidence based, insight driven and audience centric, based on our target audience's media consumption across all touchpoints - paid, owned and earned. To support this work, a COM-B will be required, along with a Theory of Change to support comms, marketing and engagement activity.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date25 February 2025
  2. Completed: Award published3 April 2025
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date24 February 2027in 5 months

About the buyer

The Government Commercial Agency (CCS) is the UK's central buying body, renamed from the Crown Commercial Service in April 2026. As CCS, it ran national buying agreements for public and non-profit bodies across the UK. Government departments and local authorities drew on it as a shared procurement route. Buyers reached suppliers through frameworks, dynamic purchasing systems, dynamic markets and catalogues. Framework places were advertised on Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and its agreements page. Registration ran through an eSourcing portal, a selection questionnaire and a tender assessment on quality and price. Suppliers paid a commission on sales rather than a fee to join.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of CCS's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and software and information systems.

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  • 79341500 · Aeral advertising services

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