Awarded contract

Strategic Communications

Details

Supplier(s)
APELLA ADVISORS LIMITED
Value
560,000
Duration
2 years
Topic
Public relations consultancy services
Published
16 September 2025

Tender description

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is seeking a corporate communications agency to work with its Policy & Communications team. The appointed agency will act as a day-to-day extension of Border to Coast's team, helping it evolve its long-term communications strategy, spot and navigate issues that might affect the organisation or its partners, and carry out communications and public affairs activity and stakeholder engagement. The selected agency will ideally know the asset management and LGPS ecosystem and understand how regulatory, political and societal factors might impact our business. It will have experience engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and have excellent communications and thought leadership capabilities in both national and trade media (financial and business). 22 tenders were received and 3 suppliers were shortlisted to the final stage. ## Contract award Title: Strategic Communications

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published16 September 2025
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date16 September 2025
  3. Next: Contract expiry date30 September 2027in 11 months

About the buyer

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is a local government pension asset manager based in Leeds. The Local Government Pension Scheme funds that set it up own it as equal shareholders. A dedicated procurement team carries out due diligence on suppliers. Some tenders use a competitive flexible procedure in two stages. Soft market testing with suppliers comes before some tenders. Bidders must show their policies on diversity, environmental impact and modern slavery.

Over the past 5 years, most of Border to Coast Pensions Partnership Limited's contract awards have been in software and information systems, financial and insurance services and IT services.

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