What counts as a media tender?

A media tender covers media buying and planning, media relations, and PR and crisis communications support. General digital marketing, advertising agency retainers and campaign delivery sit on Stotles' Marketing Tenders and Contracts page instead, with no literal keyword overlap between the two.

Who runs the largest media buying contracts in the public sector?

Transport operators and combined authorities run some of the largest media buying and planning frameworks in the corpus, 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.

What's the difference between media buying and media relations?

Media buying and planning is about purchasing advertising space and airtime, choosing channels and managing campaign delivery. Media relations is about managing a public body's reputation with journalists and the public, often bundled with crisis communications support for when something goes wrong.

What CPV codes cover media tenders?

CPV 79340000 (Advertising and marketing services) is the dominant code, carried on 827 of the 1,816 notices matching this page's keyword filter. Media relations and PR-specific work sometimes carries a separate public relations code alongside it.

Media Tenders and Contracts

See open media tenders and awarded contracts for the UK public sector.

Media work here covers media buying and planning, media relations and PR and crisis communications support, bought separately from the digital marketing and advertising agency retainers already covered on Stotles' Marketing Tenders and Contracts page. Transport operators, combined authorities and national bodies run the largest media buying frameworks.

Stotles tracks 1,816 media buying and media relations notices to date, with 916 already awarded.

1,786 results

Closed tenderPublished 21 January 2019
Media Buying Services 2019
Kingston University Higher Education CorporationClosing 4 February 2019Advertising campaign services
Closed tenderPublished 17 January 2019
Advertising and marketing services
Kingston University Higher Education CorporationGBP 3,000,000Closing 4 February 2019Advertising and marketing services
Closed tenderPublished 15 January 2019
Public relations services
Welsh GovernmentGBP 120,000Closing 19 February 2019Public relations services
Expired contract
Advertising and marketing services
University of PortsmouthSupplier(s) Havas People LtdGBP 7,000,000Awarded 17 December 2018Expiring 26 November 2022Advertising services
Expired contract
PHE - Corporate - New Recruitment Advertising and Resources Agreement
Public Health EnglandSupplier(s) PEOPLESCOUT LIMITEDAwarded 8 January 2019Expiring 1 January 2023Recruitment services
Expired contract
Advertising and Media Buying Agency
University of PortsmouthSupplier(s) Havas People LtdGBP 6,000,000Awarded 7 December 2018Expiring 17 December 2022Advertising and marketing services
Expired contract
Government Media Buying
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)Supplier(s) OMD Group LtdGBP 10,000,000Awarded 7 November 2018Expiring 8 November 2022Advertising and marketing services
Closed tenderPublished 31 December 2018
Event Management
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development OfficeGBP 10,000Closing 11 January 2019Entertainment services
Awarded contract
Marketing services
Go Ahead Holding LtdMarketing services
Expired contract
Cabinet Office media buying contract
Cabinet OfficeSupplier(s) OMD Group LtdGBP 183,800,000Awarded 21 November 2018Expiring 31 May 2022Advertising campaign services
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Closed tenderPublished 13 December 2018
Media Buying
NORTH EAST OF ENGLAND BUSINESS AND INNOVATION CENTRE LIMITEDGBP 120,000Closing 7 January 2019Advertising and marketing services
Closed tenderPublished 13 December 2018
Supply of Media Buying Services
LTE GroupGBP 1,000,000Closing 16 January 2019Advertising campaign services
Closed tenderPublished 13 December 2018
Media Training
National Savings and InvestmentsGBP 6,000Closing 24 January 2019Specialist training services
Closed tenderPublished 11 December 2018
Advertising management services
LTE GroupClosing 16 January 2019Advertising campaign services
Expired contract
Media buying for the College of Policing RM6003
The College of PolicingSupplier(s) Manning Gottlieb OMDGBP 480,000Awarded 22 November 2018Expiring 31 May 2020Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
Closed tenderPublished 11 December 2018
Supply of Media Buying Services
LTE GroupClosing 16 January 2019Advertising management services
Closed tenderPublished 10 December 2018
Promotional services
Bord Bia (Irish Food Board)EUR 100Closing 8 January 2019Promotional services
Expired contract
EHRC 1819-28 Media Buying
EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONSupplier(s) Manning Gottlieb OMDGBP 90,000Awarded 16 November 2018Expiring 18 November 2021Advertising and marketing services
Expired contract
Pay Per Click / Search Engine Optimisation / Media Agency
First Ark GroupSupplier(s) Space and Time Media LtdGBP 150,000Awarded 1 November 2018Expiring 2 December 2021Advertising and marketing services
Awarded contract
Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
English HeritageBusiness services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions about media buying, media relations in the UK public sector.

What counts as a media tender?
A media tender covers media buying and planning, media relations, and PR and crisis communications support. General digital marketing, advertising agency retainers and campaign delivery sit on Stotles' Marketing Tenders and Contracts page instead, with no literal keyword overlap between the two.
Who runs the largest media buying contracts in the public sector?
Transport operators and combined authorities run some of the largest media buying and planning frameworks in the corpus, 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.
What's the difference between media buying and media relations?
Media buying and planning is about purchasing advertising space and airtime, choosing channels and managing campaign delivery. Media relations is about managing a public body's reputation with journalists and the public, often bundled with crisis communications support for when something goes wrong.
What CPV codes cover media tenders?
CPV 79340000 (Advertising and marketing services) is the dominant code, carried on 827 of the 1,816 notices matching this page's keyword filter. Media relations and PR-specific work sometimes carries a separate public relations code alongside it.

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