AwardedFind a Tender · award

Communication Services

Buyer: NHS Digital →

BuyerNHS Digital

StatusAwarded

DeadlineNot published

ValueValue not published

Published12 Jan 2022

What is being bought

Supply of communication (marketing) services

Delivery location

Lot details

Lot 1

Open procedure

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Technical — 65
Social Value — 10
Commercial — 25

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Not published	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Marketing services (79342000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 79	13,740	4 median · 30.9 average (5,803 of 13,740 with a bid count)	3.2 average (6,507 of 13,740 with named award suppliers)	1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer	5	1 median · 1.4 average (5 of 5 with a bid count)	1 average (5 of 5 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Delivery region: UK	3,810	4 median · 60.1 average (1,523 of 3,810 with a bid count)	5 average (1,809 of 3,810 with named award suppliers)	Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimeNot published

Covered byGPA

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published

No-engagement rationaleNot published

Planning documents0

Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

000890-2022-1

Statusactive

SupplierThompson

Contracts

000890-2022-1

Statusactive

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-02d1af
Latest release ID	000890-2022
Latest release timestamp	Wed Jan 12 2022 14:43:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	complete
Procurement method	open
Procurement method details	Open procedure
Main procurement category	services
Above threshold	Not published
Legal basis	32014L0024
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	Not published
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	1
Contracts in latest release	1
Parties in latest release	2

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
12 Jan 2022	award, contract	000890-2022
6 Aug 2021	tender	019008-2021

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)

12 Jan 2022 · 000890-2022 · award, contract

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6 Aug 2021 · 019008-2021 · tender

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Communication Services

What is being bought

Delivery location

Categories

Lot details

Lot 1

What is included

Comparable-procurement analytics

Price-outcome signal

Procurement strategy & market signals

Planning & early market engagement

Related procurements

Awards

000890-2022-1

Contracts

000890-2022-1

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Notice history

All source data