Official UK procurement notice
886 by The Royal Mint 360 Marketing Growth Agency
Authority: The Royal Mint (Central government)
The appointed agency will act as an extension of the 886 Royal Mint team, bringing together day-to-day eCommerce trading, performance marketing and media, content marketing, commercial analytics and campaign deployment to deliver profitable online growth. Working across Shopify and the agreed marketing channels, the agency will the develop the growth strategy and translate the product development and trading calendar into coordinated activity, continually reviewing performance and identifying opportunities to improve acquisition, conversion and retention.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionScope of Services
The appointed agency will act as an extension of the 886 Royal Mint team, bringing together day-to-day eCommerce trading, performance marketing and media, content marketing, commercial analytics and campaign deployment to deliver profitable online growth. Working across Shopify and the agreed marketing channels, the agency will the develop the growth strategy and translate the product development and trading calendar into coordinated activity, continually reviewing performance and identifying opportunities to improve acquisition, conversion and retention. This may include checking sales and campaign results against forecasts, reviewing media spend and budget pacing, adjusting bids or audience targeting, refreshing homepage merchandising and product presentation, implementing a promotion, or identifying friction in the customer journey and prioritising a conversion test. Campaign operations could include adapting supplied assets to channel requirements, supporting and testing messaging, managing versions and trafficking approved materials. The agency will connect these activities through clear reporting, actionable recommendations and regular collaboration with the internal team, escalating issues and coordinating upcoming launches and trading priorities. Content creation, brand direction, photography, video production and creative development will remain with the internal team; the agency’s role will be to deploy, adapt and optimise approved assets within that direction.
CPV: Direct marketing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Royal Mint buys Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934), and who usually turns up
The Royal Mint has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934) →
How the contest usually goes
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Half of these awards have an award date within 46 days of the bid deadline.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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1 bid18%
2–322%
4–629%
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How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate20%
Within ±2%66%
Above estimate14%
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Lot #1CPV 7934Published estimate£6.3m
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1 bid18%
2–322%
4–629%
7+32%
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Nov 2026, 10:35 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Nov 2026, 10:35 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106988- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b947Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published2 days ago11 Nov 2026, 10:35 GMT
- Today14 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 26 days10 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
Suppliers can register on the www.royalmint.bravosolution.co.uk ↗ site and check under current opportunities for when the tender goes live
- Tender notice expectedin 51 days4 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 137 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Nov 2026, 10:35 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender