Creative Tenders and Contracts

Search live procurement portals for open creative briefs, or move earlier. On Stotles, you can read a buyer's marketing strategy and budget documents ahead of a tender, catch the signal that a creative or campaign brief is coming, and build a bid before the notice goes live. Platform-wide, 0 notices were added in the last week alone, so checking little and often beats a single search.

Often, yes. A large share of the creative notices Stotles tracks are call-offs from marketing services frameworks rather than standalone tenders, with buyers appointing a pool of agencies once and then running mini-competitions or direct call-offs for individual campaigns. A one-off open tender for creative or design work still appears, typically from a body running a single project rather than a rolling programme.

Creative strategy, campaign development, graphic design, video and photography production, and design consultancy for a specific communications need. Contract value varies widely, from a single design job to a multi-year marketing services framework covering several agencies.

Creative notices most often carry CPV code 79340000 (Advertising and marketing services), 79341400 (Advertising campaign services), and 79822500 (Graphic design services). Design-led briefs also carry 79415200 (Design consultancy services).

Stotles has recorded 27 creative tenders and contracts to date across the UK public sector, 18 of them already awarded. Coverage is thinner than for larger categories like NHS or IT, so a specific search phrase makes the difference between finding the notice and missing it.