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# Advertising & Media Buying

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/advertising-media-buying-ocds-h6vhtk-066f47). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Cabinet Office: "Advertising & Media Buying". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: £4,900,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Cabinet Office](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/cabinet-office-gov-d2)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £4,900,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Advertising and marketing services, Advertising campaign services, Advertising management services, Promotional services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-066f47`

## 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/advertising-media-buying-ocds-h6vhtk-066f47#tl-md)

## Description
Government Recruitment Service will soon be seeking a contract which can provide standard advertising and media buying services, whilst retaining some small elements of creative execution to further drive and enhance talent attraction optimising our centralised recruitment service.
The contract value is anticipated to be just under £5 million with a potential contract duration of *36 months (3 years) with an additional 12 months (1 year) contract extension.
*To note, timescales are subject to change.
There are 4 main areas within scope which include but are not limited to:
Media planning, negotiating and buying 
Offering attraction strategy advice
Media advertising such as print, digital, social
Offering market insight
A broad reach is required, therefore the supplier is expected to have the ability to access more than 140+ different media options.
Requirements may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Print press
- Recruitment directory online and print (to support job posting onto sites, an example being for Times Top 100)
- Television advertisements
- Radio commercials or podcasts
- Digital and social media posting
- Digital and social media content creation
- Billboards and poster boards
- Job Board posting 
- Promotional materials - this includes flyers, brochures and posters (excludes all merchandise/memorabilia such as mugs/pens etc)
- Promotional event advertising 
- Research / market insight - specifically linked to advertising (e.g offering geographical insight or research to aid media buying)
- Creative development - such as photoshoots, videos
- Create content for the Civil Service Fast Stream website, hosted on the Civil Service Careers website.
- The supplier must have an understanding and the ability to ensure all content (including creative aspects) conform to Government Accessibility Standards. 
- Branding (EVP) development for Fast Stream specifically.
As well as:
Providing tailored campaign planning and media buying advice (inc tailored market analysis) for all new commissions, incorporating digital, social, print and online media and other specialist channels, job boards, job aggregators, search engines, programmatic advertising and channels
Providing expert advice on the most suitable forms/types of media/messaging to include or utilise
Provide in-campaign performance reporting
Providing bespoke copy production, copy-writing, copy editing and creative input, as required
Working with media providers to ensure that advertising campaigns are delivering 
Working with other third-parties is permissible for the sole purpose of meeting advertising requirements
It's not possible to predict the volume of work that the supplier can expect to receive. However, it is not uncommon for work flow to follow a trend of peaks and troughs, sometimes with rapid and significant changes in volume. We can say that historically the average number of campaigns commissioned per annum is circa 200 (averaging 17 per month). It is not unusual ...
> [Read full procurement scope and specification on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/advertising-media-buying-ocds-h6vhtk-066f47)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 79341200, 79341400, 79342200
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Introduction
Please note, there is no commitment or guarantee that procurement activity will go ahead, this procurement is subject to internal approvals. This note is therefore intended for information purposes.
The purpose of this note is to alert p...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F025315-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-03-19T15:14:11.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T13:38:07.755Z
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