Official UK procurement notice
Media Planning and Buying for Reputation, Business Engagement and Student Recruitment Marketing
Authority: Sheffield Hallam University (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe University requires a media planning and buying agency to assist in achieving its strategic marketing and student recruitment objectives, which include:
- delivering student recruitment success and engagement across the prospective student journey in line with academic and financial targets Home and International
- raising the profile and enhancing the reputation of the University through institutional positioning and research impact
- promoting the University brand and Sheffield city to achieve stand out and cut through in our competitive marketplace
- generating business leads through business engagement activity to support apprenticeship, placement, KTP and other institutional objectives
- Measuring and optimising all activity using data and insights to ensure our activities are relevant and impactful
The agency will proactively support and work in partnership with the University's Marketing Directorate. In scope are all media planning and buying activities across Prospective Student Recruitment marketing and all brand level marketing as well as lead generation business to business marketing, paid search activity and social media campaigns across all audiences.
CPV: Advertising and marketing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£10,416,667
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 22 May 2025, 14:43 BST
- Last source update
- 22 May 2025, 14:43 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 3 Jan 2026
- Authority reference
2425-02-RCM-LJ- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-025017- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051e4fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 31 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Tender docs will be available via Sheffield Hallam University's In-Tend site in-tendhost.co.uk/sheffieldhallamunive… ↗
Tenderers will need to be registered on this site in order to view documents and submit bids
Timeline
22 May 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published22 May 2025, 14:43 BST
- Tender notice expected31 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline31 Aug 2025, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by298 days ago3 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts211 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published22 May 2025, 14:43 BSTUK3
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender