Official UK procurement notice
Development Marketing Services — UK public procurement notice
Authority: Metropolitan Housing Trust (Housing)
What is being bought3 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionMarketing services for Development schemes with estimated value £7.6m over 3+1 years
CPV: Advertising and marketing services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework
- Call-offs
- call-offs are awarded directly to appointed suppliers, without further competition
- Framework period
- 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 1 Jan 2027
Published description of the framework
Lot 1 Media Buying direct award Lots 2 and 3 by rotational mechanism outlined in tender documents Pricing for each individual lot will be based on structures in tender submissions and includes different commercial models including retainer, fee per project or time & materials and may be priced per call-off assignment dependent on project requirements.
Lots and requirements (3)Procurement structure
3 lots · all with a published value · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Media buying agency servicesRenewalPublished value£6,000,000
- Value
- £6,000,000 exc. VAT · £7,200,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Marketing services required for development schemes will vary over the contract term dependent on number of schemes developed, scope of marketing required and budget availability amongst other factors. This variability is detailed in the tender documents. · Contracts can be extended by mutual agreement between parties for a further 1 year after initial 3 years.
Lot #2Marketing SuitesRenewalPublished value£800,000
- Value
- £800,000 exc. VAT · £960,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Marketing services required for development schemes will vary over the contract term dependent on number of schemes developed, scope of marketing required and budget availability amongst other factors. This variability is detailed in the tender documents. · Contracts can be extended by mutual agreement between parties for a further 1 year after initial 3 years.
Lot #3Show HomesRenewalPublished value£800,000
- Value
- £800,000 exc. VAT · £960,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- Marketing services required for development schemes will vary over the contract term dependent on number of schemes developed, scope of marketing required and budget availability amongst other factors. This variability is detailed in the tender documents. · Contracts can be extended by mutual agreement between parties for a further 1 year after initial 3 years.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality & Delivery — 70%
- Price — 30%
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Metropolitan Housing Trust buys Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934) — and who usually turns up
Metropolitan Housing Trust’s own published record, next to the North East England market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested frameworks and DPS only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Metropolitan Housing Trust
framework/DPS notices in 36 months: 1 in division 79 (1 route not published) · 16 in all categories (11 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 12 lots. All 12 lots are from older notices, which count bids received.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 12 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 1 pairs. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no award dates published.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 103 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 5 notices.
North East England · Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934)
framework/DPS notices delivered in North East England in 36 months: 16 in CPV 7934 (13 competed, 2 route not published) · 196 in division 79 (159 competed, 25 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7934), last 36 months: 8 lots. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 7.5) and 6 from older notices (bids received, middle 7).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7934), last 36 months: 8 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this region in this sector: not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 79), last 36 months: 38 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7934), last 36 months: 4 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7934), last 36 months: 59 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 25 Sept 2026, 11:59 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Sept 2026, 11:59 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0519f3Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Expression of interest (EOI)
- —
- Appointment period ends
- 30 Oct 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice published21 May 2025, 10:25 BST
- Next notice expected359 days ago1 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
- Tender notice publishedearlier today25 Sept 2026, 11:59 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsin 35 days · period end, not a bid countdown30 Oct 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 66 days30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 97 days1 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
6 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 May 2025- Tender notice published25 Sept 2026, 11:59 BSTUK4
- Published value published: £7,600,00025 Sept 2026, 11:59 BST
- Status changed to active25 Sept 2026, 11:59 BST
- Procurement method changed25 Sept 2026, 11:59 BST
- Deadline published: 30 Oct 2026, 17:00 GMT25 Sept 2026, 11:59 BST
- Pipeline notice published21 May 2025, 10:25 BSTUK1
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender