Campaign Tenders and Contracts

Behaviour change is the biggest single strand in campaign notices: recycling, stop smoking, screening uptake, gambling harms, violence prevention. Public awareness and safety messaging sits next to it. Then come place and service marketing campaigns, and one-off launch campaigns tied to a single policy decision or announcement. The brief is usually creative and media, sometimes with evaluation attached.

Stotles brings together campaign tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Media buying and creative work are often called off from the Crown Commercial Service media and communications frameworks, so some opportunities reach only agencies already on them.

Campaign tenders are scored on the creative idea, audience insight, media plan and evaluation, and price. Many buyers call off from creative and media frameworks, so a framework place opens up campaigns that are never advertised openly.

Campaigns must follow the CAP and BCAP advertising codes, and work using personal data must meet data protection and electronic marketing rules. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar campaigns at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Often. Creative, marketing and media buying frameworks are common, and individual campaigns get called off against them by mini competition rather than a fresh procurement each time. For campaign work this route matters more than most, because a single campaign is often too small to justify a full tender on its own.

Media buying is often called off the CCS media and creative services framework, and creative and PR work runs through its communications marketplace dynamic purchasing system or multi-supplier agency panels. Smaller campaigns go out as one-off quotes. Councils, NHS bodies, government departments, universities, waste authorities and transport operators are main buyers.

Read communications strategies, public health and behaviour change plans, campaign calendars and framework renewal dates, which show campaign work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the communications teams behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

The code that matters most is 79341400 (Advertising campaign services). Buyers often file a campaign notice under a printing, design or research code instead, so CPV codes alone under-represent this category.