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Published 25 Oct 2021, 16:55 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of creative Marketing Agency Services for TPE and the TransPennine Route Upgrade Project

Official notice

Authority: Transpennine Express·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesNegotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Published estimate£2,500,000≈ £2.5m / year · 1 value update
Submissions closed 22 Nov 2022awarded 3 Mar 2022
Contract term 1 yrends 1 Mar 2023 · extension options published · starts 1 Mar 2022

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Campaign Development & Delivery

The Agency will be responsible for development and delivery of integrated through-the-line marketing campaigns for the Client to meet a written set of agreed KPIs and objectives. The detail of such campaigns will be defined in a brief with the ITN and subsequent Scope of Work. Work will include, but is not limited to:

•Transpennine Route Upgrade(TRU) - as the primary customer-facing beneficiary of the Transpennine Route Upgrade, train-operator TransPennine Express has a unique responsibility to lead the programme's marketing activity, working collaboratively with Rail North Partnership, Network Rail and Northern. This is a new brief for a powerful consumer marketing campaign to promote the improvements and the Agency will take the high-level campaign narrative and neutral brand which is currently being worked on and develop it into a marketing campaign to launch in Spring 2022. TransPennine Express revenue recovery/generating marketing campaigns. TransPennine Express has a successful brand campaign that we want to build on and explore the characters in more detail. We will be looking for the Agency to support us in evolving this brand campaign concept. TransPennine Express also runs other smaller, tactical and reactive campaigns throughout the year.

CPV: Support services for railway transport

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1The Agency will be responsible for development and delivery of integrated…AwardedRenewal 1 yrPublished value£2,500,000

The Agency will be responsible for development and delivery of integrated through-the-line marketing campaigns for the Client to meet a written set of agreed KPIs and objectives.

Contract period: 1 Mar 2022 – 1 Mar 2023 (1 yr)
Delivery: North West
Extensions: within the same remitVariant bids: not allowedElectronic catalogue: required

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/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
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
25 Oct 2021, 16:55 BST
Last source update
4 Mar 2022, 17:53 GMT
Authority reference
FX412
FTS notice number
2022/S 000-006091
Classification (CPV)
Support services for railway transport
Delivery area
North West (UKD)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02ef19 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified
Language: EN
Submission deadline
22 Nov 2022
Submission channel
{"electronicSubmission"}
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

1 Mar 2022 → 22 Nov 2022 · 3 dates
  1. Contract starts
    1 Mar 2022
  2. Notice published
    4 Mar 2022, 17:53 GMT
  3. Submission deadline
    22 Nov 2022

Notice history

6 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 25 Oct 2021
  1. Published value published: £2,500,000
    25 Oct 2021, 16:55 BST
  2. Status changed to active
    25 Oct 2021, 16:55 BST
  3. Procurement method changed
    25 Oct 2021, 16:55 BST
  4. Deadline moved to 22 Nov 2022
    25 Oct 2021, 16:55 BST
    +362 days · was 25 Nov 2021
  5. Status changed to complete
    4 Mar 2022, 17:53 GMT
  6. Buyer details updated
    4 Mar 2022, 17:53 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 1 deadline change)
WhenWhatBeforeAfterShift
—DeadlineIV.2.2—25 Nov 2021

1 amendment published without a description.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Contracts signed 1latest 3 Mar 2022

1 further award records carry no date or value.

Contracts

  • Contract 006091-2022-1 · supplier not published

    Signed
    3 Mar 2022
    Value
    —
    Period
    … – 1 Mar 2023
    Status
    active

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

TransPennine Express Limited

Contracting authorityRailway services LONDON, North West, W2 1AFContact email

Consortium members and other public bodies

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • First TransPennine Express LimitedReview body London

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.