Annual Report and Accounts - Creative and Design Agency

• The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 27 Jan 2031, 23:59 GMT.
• How the procedure runs: This procurement uses the Competitive Flexible Procedure under the Procurement Act 2023. The process will have one Tender response deadline requiring the concurrent submission for both the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) and the Invitation to Tender (ITT) which must be submitted simultaneously. PSQ Evaluation will take place via a Conditions of Participation Assessment, whereby only those Tenderers who successfully qualify will progress and have their ITT submissions assessed at the next stage of the process. Step 1: The PSQ requests standard Tenderer information, hard binary gateway questions (mandatory/exclusion grounds) insurance information, project specific pass/fail questions and project specific scored questions (there is a minimum score of 3 to pass). Please note that a fail on any gateway question results in exclusion. Step 2: Tenderers who have passed all pass/fail questions and have received a minimum score of 3 or above at PSQ stage will have their full ITT responses evaluated. Evaluations will focus on Quality, including Social Value (70%) and Commercial (20%). The Crown Estate reserves the right to exercise Step 3 to invite the top three highest ranked Tenderers for a Presentation/Interview (10%). The contract will be awarded to the most advantageous Tender. As the PSQ and ITT will be issued and returned simultaneously, The Crown Estate accepts no liability for any costs incurred by a Tenderer in preparing an ITT response that is not evaluated as a result of PSQ failure. Tenderers must not assume that a submission of an ITT response indicates that their PSQ has been assessed as a pass.

CPV: Advertising and marketing services · Design consultancy services · Graphic design services · Publications

Procedure method

Competitive flexible procedure

Legal basis

UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023

Procurement category

Services

Notice status

Closed

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

Yes · next expected 27 Jan 2031

First published

3 Mar 2026, 15:49 GMT

Last source update

21 Aug 2026, 23:21 BST

Award evaluation window

Submission end – 17 Nov 2026

Authority reference

79826

FTS notice number

2026/S 000-080114

Latest notice

Tender notice (UK4)

Classification (CPV)

Advertising and marketing servicesDesign consultancy servicesGraphic design servicesPublications

Delivery area

UKNorth East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)

+2 more

South East (UKJ)South West (UKK)

Official registry OCID

ocds-h6vhtk-06615a Find a Tender

How it runs

This procurement uses the Competitive Flexible Procedure under the Procurement Act 2023. The process will have one Tender response deadline requiring the concurrent submission for both the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) and the Invitation to Tender (ITT) which must be submitted simultaneously. PSQ Evaluation will take place via a Conditions of Participation Assessment, whereby only those Tenderers who successfully qualify will progress and have their ITT submissions assessed at the next stage of the process.

Step 1: The PSQ requests standard Tenderer information, hard binary gateway questions (mandatory/exclusion grounds) insurance information, project specific pass/fail questions and project specific scored questions (there is a minimum score of 3 to pass).

Please note that a fail on any gateway question results in exclusion.

Step 2: Tenderers who have passed all pass/fail questions and have received a minimum score of 3 or above at PSQ stage will have their full ITT responses evaluated. Evaluations will focus on Quality, including Social Value (70%) and Commercial (20%). The Crown Estate reserves the right to exercise Step 3 to invite the top three highest ranked Tenderers for a Presentation/Interview (10%). The contract will be awarded to the most advantageous Tender.

As the PSQ and ITT will be issued and returned simultaneously, The Crown Estate accepts no liability for any costs incurred by a Tenderer in preparing an ITT response that is not evaluated as a result of PSQ failure. Tenderers must not assume that a submission of an ITT response indicates that their PSQ has been assessed as a pass.

Submission deadline

21 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST

Clarification deadline

1 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST

Submission channel

Official e-sourcing portal

Electronic submission

Allowed

Accepted languages

en