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Creative Campaign Development and Delivery

Buyer: Department for Work & Pensions →

BuyerDepartment for Work & Pensions
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
Value£15,000,000
Published13 May 2026

What is being bought

Contract for the creative development and delivery of Universal Credit and legacy benefit campaigns, Pensions campaigns, Labour Market campaigns, and Disability and Inclusion campaigns. To evolve the Authority's strategic approach to all Campaigns. To help set direction and evaluate future creative needs for the Authority's Communications Directorate. It will also require close working with our media planning and research agencies to understand our audience segmentation and marketing tasks. To ensure cost effective supply of concepts, illustration, creative photography, copywriting, post production services and any service deemed essential by the Agency or the Authority to the success of the campaign, whether that be directly or by means of subcontractors. DWP would like the market to be aware that this may be an aggregated procurement with DfE.

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Advertising and marketing services 79340000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned
Contract periodFrom 14 May 2027 to 13 May 2031
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Advertising and marketing servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Advertising and marketing services (79340000); 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 setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 7913,7424 median · 30.9 average (5,805 of 13,742 with a bid count)3.2 average (6,511 of 13,742 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer5Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK3,8154 median · 60.1 average (1,524 of 3,815 with a bid count)5.1 average (1,812 of 3,815 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)4353 median · 15 average (3 of 435 with a bid count)2 average (3 of 435 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 procurementYes
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06976d
Latest release ID043809-2026
Latest release timestampWed May 13 2026 10:54:31 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsAward under framework
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£15,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
13 May 2026planning043809-2026

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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