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 23 September 2016
Advertising services
Dublin Bus/Bus Atha CliathEUR 3,000,000Closing 6 October 2016Advertising services
Closed tenderPublished 16 September 2016
Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
AnchorClosing 6 October 2016Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
Expired contract
Advertising and marketing services
The Health Insurance AuthoritySupplier(s) Irish InternationalEUR 900,000Awarded 14 September 2016Expiring 30 August 2019Advertising, propaganda and information film and video-tape production
Expired contract
North East LEP Skills Programme - Public Relations and Social Media Framework
Sunderland City CouncilSupplier(s) Astute.WorkGBP 160,000Awarded 31 August 2016Expiring 17 July 2018Public relations services
Closed tenderPublished 25 August 2016
Advertising and marketing services
An PostEUR 1Closing 27 September 2016Marketing services
Closed tenderPublished 24 August 2016
16/059 - Digital Media Buying Agency
University of PortsmouthClosing 20 September 2016Marketing services
Closed tenderPublished 24 August 2016
Marketing services
University of PortsmouthClosing 26 September 2016Marketing services
Expired contract
Public Relations Support Service
Offshore Renewable Energy CatapultSupplier(s) Weber ShandwickGBP 44,600Awarded 11 August 2016Expiring 7 September 2017Public relations services
Closed tenderPublished 18 August 2016
Media Buying & Advertising
University of WarwickGBP 1Closing 27 September 2016Advertising services
Closed tenderPublished 18 August 2016
Advertising and marketing services
University of WarwickClosing 27 September 2016Advertising campaign services
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Closed tenderPublished 12 August 2016
Northamptonshire County Council Start-up Business Support Advisors for the Ready2Grow (R2G) Project
LGSSClosing 16 September 2016Business development consultancy services
Awarded contract
Advertising management services
York CollegeSupplier(s) Narrative Integrated Communications LimitedGBP 149,251Advertising management services
Closed tenderPublished 8 August 2016
Communications contractor
Stroud Town CouncilGBP 25,000Closing 5 September 2016Public relations services
Stale Pre-tenderPublished 5 August 2016
Public relations management services
National Grid UK LtdPublic relations management services
Stale Pre-tenderPublished 4 August 2016
Business and management consultancy and related services
ESPOGBP 200,000,000Research and development consultancy services
Stale Pre-tenderPublished 29 July 2016
Advertising and marketing services
Welsh Government Commercial Delivery (WGCD)Marketing services
Awarded contract
Advertising and marketing services
North London Waste AuthoritySupplier(s) Media Therapy LimitedGBP 915,000Awarded 5 July 2016Advertising and marketing services
Expired contract
Public relations services
National Museums Northern IrelandSupplier(s) JPR NI LTDGBP 300,000Awarded 14 July 2016Expiring 31 December 2018Public relations management services
Expired contract
London & Quadrant - Sales & Marketing "Media Agency" Framework
London & Quadrant Housing TrustSupplier(s) The Media People, Four CommunicationsGBP 50,000Awarded 30 November 2015Expiring 15 December 2019Design and execution of research and development
Awarded contract
Advertising and marketing services
London & Quadrant Housing TrustSupplier(s) Four Communications, The Media PeopleGBP 7,500,000Design and execution of research and development

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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