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title: "Provision of creative Marketing Agency Services for TPE and the TransPennine Route Upgrade Project"
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# Provision of creative Marketing Agency Services for TPE and the TransPennine Route Upgrade Project

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-creative-marketing-agency-services-for-tpe-and-the-transpennine-route-upgrade-ocds-h6vhtk-02ef19). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Transpennine Express: "Provision of creative Marketing Agency Services for TPE and the TransPennine Route Upgrade Project". Published status: complete. Published Value: £2,500,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 22 Nov 2022. Published submission portal: s2c-uk62.waxdigital.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Transpennine Express](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/transpennine-express-coh-04661194)
- **Published Value:** £2,500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 22 November 2022 at 00:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Negotiated procedure with prior call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Support services for railway transport
- **Delivery Location:** UKD
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0025
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-02ef19`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-creative-marketing-agency-services-for-tpe-and-the-transpennine-route-upgrade-ocds-h6vhtk-02ef19#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [s2c-uk62.waxdigital.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2c-uk62.waxdigital.com%2FFirstGroupPlc%2FDisplayModules%2FTradeModules%2FNegotiations%2FOpportunities%2FListEvents.aspx%3FApplicationInstanceID%3D27adc89e-0cb2-4b51-9bc1-34061f10156f)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-creative-marketing-agency-services-for-tpe-and-the-transpennine-route-upgrade-ocds-h6vhtk-02ef19#participate

## 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.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Estimated Value:** £2,500,000
- **Description:** 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:** 01/03/2022 to 01/03/2023
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 006091-2022-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Not published**

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 006091-2022-1 (active)

  - Signed Date: 03/03/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F006091-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-03-04T17:53:48.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T18:17:28.498Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-02ef19