Official UK procurement notice
ID 5584876 - TEO - Contingency Campaign Advertising Contract
Authority: The Executive Office
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTEO - Contingency Campaign Advertising Contract The Executive Information Service, hereby referred to as ‘the Buyer’ wishes to appoint a full-service advertising agency to develop and deliver mass media advertising campaigns and related services in the event of a significant emergency that threatens to have a wide reaching and/or prolonged impact on the citizens of Northern Ireland. The Contractor will be required to provide a comprehensive suite of services including creative development and strategy, advertising (traditional and digital), creative design and content creation, copywriting, campaign management and evaluation to ensure value for money and impact amongst its target audiences. The detail of any campaign will depend on the circumstances however the overarching objectives of any public information advertising campaign will be:
- To increase public awareness of the emergency/issue and to provide them with the information they need to stay safe
- To communicate NI Executive’s decisions in relation to the emergency/issue.
- To minimise misunderstanding, rumours and misinformation.
- To ensure that messages are disseminated in a timely, targeted and consistent manner.
- To target specific audiences and stakeholders with key information.
- To encourage the public/stakeholders to take any necessary actions. Note, these are typical of the type of services which will be required for work commissioned under this Contract. The Buyer has endeavoured to be as accurate as possible, however the actual requirement for work to be carried out will be further defined during the lifetime of the Contract.
CPV: Advertising and marketing services · Advertising campaign services · Advertising management services · Advertising services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£3,000,000
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).
- Suitability
Candidates will be assessed in accordance with Regulation 58 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 as set out in the Information Memorandum. A selection process will also be used to identify economic operators, who having submitted a response to the Selection Questionnaire, sufficiently demonstrate to the Department’s satisfaction the appropriate technical and professional ability, economic, financial and legal standing to meet the requirements of the contract.
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
- Closed
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 21 Feb 2025, 11:31 GMT
- Last source update
- 21 Feb 2025, 11:31 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 16 Apr 2025 – …
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-006616- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04e620Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic payment
- Review procedure
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for the unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
Publisher note: The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored in line with the tender documentation. 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 Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Notice of Unsatisfactory Performance can 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 three years from the date of issue.. . The Authority expressly reserves the rights:. . (I). not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice;. (II). to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition;. (III). to award (a) contract(s) in respect of any part(s) of the [services] covered by this notice; and. (IV). to award contract(s) in stages.. . and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates..
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 16 Apr 2025, 15:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 16 Apr 2025, 15:30 BST
Timeline
21 Feb 2025 → 15 Jul 2025 · 4 dates- Notice published21 Feb 2025, 11:31 GMT
- Submission deadline16 Apr 2025, 15:00 BST
- Bids opened16 Apr 2025, 15:30 BST
- Bids must remain valid until15 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- 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
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria