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Media Monitoring & Sentiment Analysis
Advertising and marketing services
Data-processing services
Market research services
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Location not published
Published value
£320,000
Submission deadline 30 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Wales & West Utilities Limited: "Media Monitoring & Sentiment Analysis". Published status: active. Published value: £320,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 30 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.
| Contracting Authority | Wales & West Utilities Limited | Scope & Categories | Not published | Submission Window | Closed 30 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Submission Gateway | Direct notice route | Legal Basis & Regime | Standard procurement | Estimated Value (exc. VAT) | £320,000 |
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Wales & West Utilities Limited
Market Analytics
Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Wales & West Utilities Limited. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
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Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
WARM WALES - CYMRU GYNNESTop vendor: 41% of attributable valuePayment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Coverage: 13 active published awards; 0 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
| Supplier Name | Historic Awards | Attributable GBP Value |
|---|---|---|
| WARM WALES - CYMRU GYNNES | 1 win | £2,000,000 |
| MIND (THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH) | 1 win | £1,150,000 |
| BRITISH KIDNEY PATIENT ASSOCIATION(THE) | 1 win | £1,100,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 1 win | £626,967 |
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityWales & West Utilities Limited | Procedure methodNot published | Procurement categoryNot published |
Statusactive | Framework / DPSNot published | CompetitionNot published |
Above thresholdNot published | Legal basisNot published | Tender period startsNot published |
Clarification deadlineNot published | Electronic submissionNot published | Submission languagesNot published |
Published2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST | Last source update2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST | Recurring procurementNot published |
ClassificationAdvertising and marketing services, Data-processing services, Market research services, News-agency services, Statistical services | ||
Delivery areaLocation not published | ||
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04fbea | ||
What is being bought
We need comprehensive media monitoring and social listening services, providing reputation and sentiment analysis to help us identify the most relevant commentary across the fullest range of media and social channels. Wherever Wales &West Utilities (WWU) is being mentioned, we need to know about it and we need to understand whether our audience is talking positively or negatively about us and where we stand among the noise.
We need access to real time information and clean data to help inform our communication campaigns, media engagement and stakeholder strategies. Data is vital to us in understanding the needs of our customers and monitoring customer feedback is integral to the work we do. Overall, we need a service that provides us with the information and data we need to get ahead of emerging trends across our industry and the energy sector as a whole.
Requirements:
• 24/7 multi-channel media monitoring covering broadcast, print media, online news, and social media across the UK
• Daily reports of the main media stories and mentions with links to original content, delivered to specified in-boxes each day, 7 days per week
• Real time news coverage and alerts for breaking news stories and conversations relevant to our business
• Monthly 'Executive-ready' reports, analysis and recommendations
• Integrated media licensing for digital access to original content, if possible
• Social listening to provide insights into stakeholder and customer sentiment about WWU to help inform business strategies and enhance customer service(unified customer management functionality)
• Access to day-to-day brand monitoring and analysis
• Ability to visualise complex data including charts and graphs
• User friendly and intuitive digital platform/dashboard for customisable self-analysis and for searching for relevant news items
• Assigned account manager to develop full appreciation of our business needs and to identify reputational risks and opportunities
• Integrated function to run tagged social media campaigns
• Ability to respond to comments and messages via the platform, as well as assign tasks and schedule social media and PR releases
• Multiple product licenses to engage colleagues across the business
Metrics and analysis:
• Volume of mentions and potential reach of mentions of WWU across multiple channels
• Share of voice per platform: Identifying where our brand is being mentioned to help us identify where we should focus our time and energy
• Sentiment analysis to understand how WWU is being perceived in discussions online, broken down by key variables including social media platform
• Trends analysis: The most common topics associated with WWU
• Top publications: The publications that are talking about our brand the most
• Top location: Where our brand mentions a re originating from
• Top influencers and journalists: Who mentions our brand, products and/or key stakeholders
• Industry benchmarking and comparisons across a range of metrics
What changed
From the official release history
- Published value updated to £320,000
2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST - Status changed to active
2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST - Official notice release published
2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST - Submission deadline changed to 30 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST
2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST - Buyer information updated
2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
- Lot 1 · #1Individual lot title not publishedactivePublished value£320,000The source published no individual title or description for this lot.Contract periodNot publishedEligibilityNot publishedOptions / renewalNot published
Timeline
- Procedure published
2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST - Submission deadline
30 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published |
ContractsNo contract published |
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published |
Buyer and organisations in this procedure
Wales & West Utilities Limited
Contracting authority GB-COH-05046791Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
- 2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST
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