Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 11 Nov 2026, 10:35 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

886 by The Royal Mint 360 Marketing Growth Agency

Authority: The Royal Mint (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£6,250,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 4 Jan 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 1 Apr 2029 · up to 1 Apr 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

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 description

Scope 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 published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 1 Apr 2029 (2 yrs) · up to 1 Apr 2032 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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) →

1

How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerThe Royal Mint · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 1 of 2 known-size awards · market: CPV 7934 · UK-wide, n=556
1 of 273%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.

Buyer: 0 of 2 known-location awards · market: CPV 7934 · UK-wide, n=394
0 of 256%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i
Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7934 · UK-wide, n=136
—46 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 46 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Buyer: exactly 0 of 2 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7934 · UK-wide, n=692
0 of 242%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i
This buyerToo few to chart: 2 lots with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market248 lots with bid counts · CPV 7934 · UK-wide
18% had one bid
% of the market's 248 lots with a published bid count · select a colour for counts
1 bid18%
Market: 44 of 248 lots with published bid counts.
2–322%
Market: 54 of 248 lots with published bid counts.
4–629%
Market: 71 of 248 lots with published bid counts.
7+32%
Market: 79 of 248 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i
This buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with estimate and award, 5 needed · broad CPV 79
The market194 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7934 · UK-wide
20% below estimate
% of the market's 194 lots with an estimate and award · select a colour for counts
Below estimate20%
Market: 38 of 194 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%66%
Market: 128 of 194 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate14%
Market: 28 of 194 lots with an estimate and award.
2

Assess each lot
i

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 793424 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£6.3m
Expected competition
i

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 248 past lots.

—No model forecast yet18% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 248 similar lots
1 bid18%
44 of 248 similar past lots received 1 bid (18%).
2–322%
54 of 248 similar past lots received 2–3 (22%).
4–629%
71 of 248 similar past lots received 4–6 (29%).
7+32%
79 of 248 similar past lots received 7+ (32%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £6.3m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

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.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Coming up in this sector

Contracts ending within 12 months · Retender Radar, sector filter set

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)
Direct marketing services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b947 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
—

Timeline

11 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published2 days ago
    11 Nov 2026, 10:35 GMT
  2. Today
    14 Nov 2026
  3. Market engagementin 26 days
    10 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

  4. Tender notice expectedin 51 days
    4 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 137 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    11 Nov 2026, 10:35 GMT
    UK2

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

The Royal Mint

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-COH: 06964873 Llantrisant, Pontyclun, Wales, CF72 8YTContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure