Awarded contract

2026-821 Social for Campaign Media Buying

Details

Value
£5,000,000
Duration
2 years
Topic
Advertising and marketing services
Published
21 October 2026

Tender description

Awarded - AHDB is seeking an experienced social media planning and buying agency to develop, deliver, implement and optimise paid social campaigns across its Beef & Lamb, Pork and Dairy sectors. Campaign activity will support and integrate with AHDB's broader always on marketing programme, ensuring a coordinated and impactful approach across campaign bursts and key periods. They will work alongside the current social media agency who develop the creative content for campaigns and manage paid advertising outside of campaign bursts. The successful agency will act as a partner to AHDB, working collaboratively to maximise the campaign performance, audience engagement and return on investment. The agency will bring proven expertise in delivering high-performing consumer food and drink campaigns, leveraging audience insight, data-driven planning and platform-specialist knowledge to achieve both awareness, reach and behavioural change objectives, while delivering measurable business outcomes. The successful agency should demonstrate: • Strong experience planning and buying large-scale paid social campaigns. • Experience within food or drink • Strong understanding of health-conscious and family audiences. • Expertise across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest and future social platforms. • A proven track record of delivering measurable improvements in campaign performance and return on investment • Excellent analytical capability, reporting and insight generation. ## Contract award Title: 2026-821 Social for Campaign Media Buying

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date20 October 2026
  2. Completed: Award published21 October 2026
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date28 February 2029in 2 years

About the buyer

Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is the statutory levy board for the cereals and oilseeds, dairy, beef and lamb, and pork sectors. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs sponsors AHDB, a non-departmental public body. Common goods and services are bought through framework agreements arranged by the Government Commercial Agency.

Over the past 5 years, most of AHDB's contract awards have been in agricultural and horticultural services, business services and IT services.

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