Official UK procurement notice
Marketing Activities · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Transport for London (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvide full creative services, including but not limited to, strategic campaign direction, design, multimedia output, event and experiential, print and installation as required. This will work closely with Places for London
CPV: Marketing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Places for London (Places), needs the support of external creative agencies to assist…Awarded
Places for London (Places), needs the support of external creative agencies to assist them with meeting the BU annual turnover figure of £89m, which provides significant income into TfL and is set to grow considerably over the coming years. Whilst the needs of Places are similar to TfL, they differ mainly in the target audience, with their main target audiences being business to business (B2B). This along with a property derived backdrop, the supply bases are of a similar nature but differ slightly.
Places requirements include the manufacturing of large print format campaign artwork, as well as technical aspects including survey sites, create artwork schematics and safely install artwork within both operational and non-operational settings.
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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 19 Feb 2026, 11:47 GMT
- Last source update
- 19 Feb 2026, 11:47 GMT
- Authority reference
TfL 96808- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-015166- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0657faFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
Call off from CCS RM6124 DPS - Under PCR2015.
Categories were filtered by selection available on the CCS.
All suppliers were sent an early market engagement to complete and would allow us to register them to SAP Ariba.
An expression of interest, was then sent out to all suppliers a further two times to allow us to register them to SAP Ariba
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Definition Group LimitedSME | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 015166-2026-CW86405 - TfL96808-1 · Definition Group LimitedSME
- Signed
- 16 Feb 2026
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Places for London (Places), needs the support of external creative agencies to assist… | 2bids | — | — | £1 – £833,250 |
| Whole notice | — | — | — | £1 – £833,250 |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Definition GroupAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.