Official UK procurement notice
HR Advertising Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Civil Nuclear Police Authority (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionA further competition under ESPO 3A_24 Lot 1 only for HR Advertising Services
CPV: Advertising services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The solution encompasses all CNCs specific requirements listed in clause 2, but can…Awarded
The solution encompasses all CNCs specific requirements listed in clause 2, but can also include a range of other recruitment and resourcing services accessible via this framework if required, as outlined below:
- Provide advice and consultancy regarding media and recruitment topics, such as maximising candidate attraction; sourcing strategies; search engine optimisation; web-based services and social media; the use of advert wording.
- Media planning, buying and negotiating the most cost effective media selection, including advice on using new/innovative/cutting edge and emerging media where relevant to attracting specific demographics; reaching the target audience; ensuring reach into groups that are typically underrepresented, supporting the customer in ensuring their workforce is reflective of the community they operate in.
- Digital and Social media (including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, programmatic, SEO etc.)
- Digital consultancy; social media community management and consultancy including curated blogs; candidate generation and management; individual recruitment campaigns (full end-to-end recruitment processes including research, advertising, sourcing candidates, response handling, sifting, screening, etc.); training Customer staff to manage social media accounts; employee engagement; on-boarding; and related activities; market and audience insight research.
- Printed press (Mainstream newspapers; local / regional newspapers; specialist journals; trade magazines; etc.).
- Any other media channels as required (talent networks, forums, careers fairs, TV, radio etc.)
- All associated production and creative services for all channels
- Employer branding consultancy and development as required
- All account management services
- Evaluation of advertising outcomes for advertising undertaken (including reports on end-to-end campaigns) for longer and always-on campaigns, provide in-campaign performance
reporting against benchmarks and actively manage the performance of each channel, making recommendations about possible adjustments at regular intervals.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 Jul 2026, 10:07 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Jul 2026, 10:07 BST
- Authority reference
1200- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-071065- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d4e2Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
A pre-tendered fully advertised and competitively established framework ESPO 3A_24 was used with further competition of which this contract has now been awarded
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penna plc | £350,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
HR Advertising Services · Penna plc
- Signed
- 24 Jul 2026
- Value
- £350,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Civil Nuclear ConstabularyReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Penna PLCAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.