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Creative Services, Media Planning & Buying and Search Engine Optimisation

Buyer: Transpennine Trains Limited →

BuyerTranspennine Trains Limited
StatustenderUpdate
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published30 Jan 2026

What is being bought

There will be three Lots to this procurement: 1. Creative Services - development and delivery of integrated through-the-line marketing campaigns. The detail of such campaigns will be defined in a brief with the ITN. 2. Media Planning & Buying - •High-level media buying strategy, aligning the media approach to holistic business priorities and specific marketing objectives. •Tactical channel planning, across both Above The Line and Below The Line channels, with the ability to engage audiences across multiple touch points. •Campaign analysis and evaluation, enabling campaign delivery to be monitored, thereby ensuring an optimal approach and best return for the client. 3. Search Engine Optimisation - plan and support the implementation of TPE’s SEO strategy which covers content optimisation, technical SEO and backlinks. Please refer to the attached Memorandum of Information.

Categories

Advertising and marketing services 79340000

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 795,0503 median · 32.5 average (1,528 of 5,050 with a bid count)2.9 average (1,713 of 5,050 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot 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 byNot published
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.

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.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-03fbd9
Latest release ID008695-2026
Latest release timestampFri Jan 30 2026 21:05:04 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusNot published
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
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 valueNot published
Tender lots in source0
Tender items in source0
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
30 Jan 2026tenderUpdate008695-2026

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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