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title: "2026-821 Social for Campaign Media Buying"
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# 2026-821 Social for Campaign Media Buying

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2026-821-social-for-campaign-media-buying-ocds-h6vhtk-06dfaf). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** AHDB: "2026-821 Social for Campaign Media Buying". Published status: complete. Published Value: £5,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 16 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: defra-family.force.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [AHDB](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/ahdb-gov-ot204)
- **Published Value:** £5,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 16 September 2026 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Advertising and marketing services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £5,000,000 (exc. VAT, 1 award)
- **Official Documents:** 3 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2026-821-social-for-campaign-media-buying-ocds-h6vhtk-06dfaf#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-06dfaf`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2026-821-social-for-campaign-media-buying-ocds-h6vhtk-06dfaf#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [defra-family.force.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdefra-family.force.com%2Fs%2FWelcome)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/2026-821-social-for-campaign-media-buying-ocds-h6vhtk-06dfaf#participate

## Description
Awarded - AHDB is seeking an experienced social media planning and buying agency to develop, deliver, implement and optimise paid social campaigns across its Beef & Lamb, Pork and Dairy sectors. Campaign activity will support and integrate with AHDB's broader always on marketing programme, ensuring a coordinated and impactful approach across campaign bursts and key periods. They will work alongside the current social media agency who develop the creative content for campaigns and manage paid advertising outside of campaign bursts.
The successful agency will act as a partner to AHDB, working collaboratively to maximise the campaign performance, audience engagement and return on investment.
The agency will bring proven expertise in delivering high-performing consumer food and drink campaigns, leveraging audience insight, data-driven planning and platform-specialist knowledge to achieve both awareness, reach and behavioural change objectives, while delivering measurable business outcomes.
The successful agency should demonstrate:
• Strong experience planning and buying large-scale paid social campaigns.
• Experience within food or drink
• Strong understanding of health-conscious and family audiences.
• Expertise across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest and future social platforms.
• A proven track record of delivering measurable improvements in campaign performance and return on investment
• Excellent analytical capability, reporting and insight generation.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 79340000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £5,000,000

- **Contract Period:** 31/03/2027 to 31/03/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 2026-821 Social for Campaign Media Buying (pending)
  - Award id: `1`
  - Supplier(s): **Lux Illuminating Brands**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-110975`
  - Value: £5,000,000 (exc. VAT)
  - Date: 19/10/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F075543-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-10-21T09:12:01.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T14:06:25.690Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-06dfaf