Official UK procurement notice
ID 3420850 - DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES (DFC) ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS AND RELATED SERVICES
Authority: Department for Communities (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Department for Communities wishes to appoint a Contractor to provide advertising campaigns and related services to promote and support the delivery of information on the ongoing implementation of Universal Credit, promote the Department’s JobStart scheme, promote the Department’s Make the Call benefit uptake ‘wraparound scheme’, promote the Department’s Discretionary Support scheme, promote the support available as part of the Department’s Advisor Discretion Fund, promote the services of the Department’s Child Maintenance Service (CMS), and/encourage customers to move from a Post Office card account to a bank/ building society or Credit Union account.
- Recurrence: Following the expiry of this contract, the client may require a further contract for this service
CPV: Advertising and marketing services · Advertising campaign services · Advertising management services · Advertising services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedPublished value£1,500,000
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 (8)
- AC1 - Strategic Solution: 16.8%
- AC2 - Media Strategy, Rationale and Plan: 18.9%
- AC3 - Proposals for Research and Evaluation: 4.9%
- AC4 - Creative Proposal: 20.3%
- AC5 - Key Personnel Experience: 4.9%
- AC6 - Contingency Planning and Business Continuity: 4.2%
- AC7 - Total Media Plan Cost: 10%
- AC8 - Average Hourly Rate: 20%
Published award criteria (8)
- AC1 - Strategic Solution: 16.8
- AC2 - Media Strategy, Rationale and Plan: 18.9
- AC3 - Proposals for Research and Evaluation: 4.9
- AC4 - Creative Proposal: 20.3
- AC5 - Key Personnel Experience: 4.9
- AC6 - Contingency Planning and Business Continuity: 4.2
- AC7 - Total Media Plan Cost: 10
- AC8 - Average Hourly Rate: 20
- Economic & financial standing
as per Tender documentation
- Technical & professional ability
as per Tender documentation
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · Following the expiry of this contract, the client may require a further contract for this service
- First published
- 17 May 2021, 16:15 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Jul 2021, 08:15 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 17 Jun 2021 – …
- Authority reference
ID 3420850- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-017147- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02b1e5Find a Tender
- Review procedure
CPD complied with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) and incorporated a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract was communicated to tenderers. That notification provided full information on the award decision. This provided time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract was entered into.
Publisher note: Contract Monitoring. The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored in line with PGN 01/12. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the certificate..
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 17 Jun 2021, 15:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 17 Jun 2021, 15:30 BST
Timeline
17 Jun 2021 → 15 Sept 2021 · 4 dates- Submission deadline17 Jun 2021, 15:00 BST
- Bids opened17 Jun 2021, 15:30 BST
- Notice published21 Jul 2021, 08:15 BST
- Bids must remain valid until15 Sept 2021, 23:59 BST
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Status changed to complete21 Jul 2021, 08:15 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAVIGATOR BLUE LTDSMEContract | £1,500,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract · NAVIGATOR BLUE LTDSME
- Signed
- 20 Jul 2021
- Value
- £1,500,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2bids · 2 electronic · 1 from abroad | 1 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures.Review body
- The UK does not have any such bodies with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures. Instead; any challenges are dealt with by the High Court, Commercial Division, to which proceedings may be issued regarding alleged breaches of the PCR 2015 as amended.Review body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- NAVIGATOR BLUE LTDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.