Contracts Finder notice
Student Recruitment Marketing Services
Authority: ASTON UNIVERSITY
CPV: Advertising services (79341000)
Published contract value£2,500,000Exc. VAT
Contract ends 31 Dec 2027
Awarded to S M R S LTD
Contract starts 1 Jan 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionServices include, but are not limited to:
- Media planning and buying across managed digital platforms (including PPC and paid social), education channels and above-the-line media
- Campaign reporting and optimisation
- Sector insight and expertise
Awarded following a further competition via the ESPO Advertising Solutions framework (Lot 4 - Student Marketing).
Options to extend for a further 3 years to 31/12/2030.
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- 1134
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- B4 7ET
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision28 Oct 2025
- Contract starts1 Jan 2026
- Notice published12 Jan 2026
- Contract ends31 Dec 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- ASTON UNIVERSITYContracting authority
- Identifier
- sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/wrP44fnV · GB-SRS
Suppliers named on the notice
- S M R S LTDSupplier
- Identifier
- 03365804 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- SME
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-1c91e9a2-936d-4b02-9e05-0ee9ff4760ff-2026-01-12T13:10:38Z
- Published
- 12 Jan 2026
- Latest update
- 12 Jan 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-1c91e9a2-936d-4b02-9e05-0ee9ff4760ff
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-1c91e9a2-936d-4b02-9e05-0ee9ff4760ff-1