Media Tenders and Contracts

A media tender covers media buying and planning, media relations, press office and media monitoring support, and video or photography commissioned alongside a campaign.

Stotles brings together media 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 production are often called off from frameworks, so some opportunities reach only agencies already on them.

Media tenders are scored on the creative or campaign approach, audience reach and evaluation, production quality, turnaround and price. Many buyers call off media buying and production from frameworks, so a framework place opens up work that is never advertised openly.

Media and production work must respect copyright and consent rules for filming and photography, and campaigns using personal data must meet data protection law. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar work at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Transport operators and combined authorities run some of the largest media buying and planning frameworks, alongside national bodies such as Welsh Government. Media relations and PR-focused contracts are more evenly spread across councils, agencies and public bodies of all sizes.

Read communications strategies, campaign calendars, event programmes and framework renewal dates, which show media 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.

Media notices carry 79340000 (Advertising and marketing services), 79341400 (Advertising campaign services) and 79342000 (Marketing services), and media monitoring platforms also carry 72400000 (Internet services).