Awarded contract

Award of Provision of a Senior Content Designer (SPPD)

Details

Buyer: Scottish Government
Supplier(s): Venesky-Brown Recruitment Ltd
Value: £196,635
Topic: Supply services of personnel including temporary staff
Published: 14 November 2025
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

A content designer works on the end-to-end journey of a service to help users complete their goal and government deliver a policy intent. Their work may involve the creation of, or change to, a transaction, product or single piece of content that stretches across digital and offline channels.A senior content designer is an expert practitioner who develops content strategy and solutions for large-scale problems and high profile events. They take responsibility for content quality, managing small teams and mentoring content designers. They write and map user stories, assure quality and review the work of others. They lead on cross-government content projects. They engage and contribute to the cross-government content community.

Timeline

Completed: Award published14 November 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date14 November 2025

About the buyer

The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. Regulated procurements across the Scottish public sector are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland, the national portal set up in 2008. Bids are usually submitted through PCS-Tender, the national eTendering system it funds. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government. The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.

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

Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.

Relevant CPV codes

79620000 · Supply services of personnel including temporary staff

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@scottish-government.gov