Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-12-16
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 22312000 | 22315000 | 22462000 | 30213100 | 30213200
Estimated value: 490000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as the authority intends to put in place a Pan Government Collaborative Agreement for the provision of creative and marketing services to be utilised by Central Government Departments and all other UK Public Sector Bodies, including local authorities, health, police, fire and rescue, education, charities and devolved administrations. It is intended that this commercial agreement will be the recommended vehicle for all creative and marketing services required by UK Central Government Departments.
The aim of the Campaign Solutions 2 agreement is to provide public sector customers with access to an innovative, quality and value for money approach to buying communications that takes advantage of dynamic changes within the marketplace.
Suitable for an organisation with the strategic and creative excellence to provide an end to end solution, vision and domestic and international connections to establish, contract and manage the right team at the right stage of the campaign lifecycle.
Able to orchestrate different partners (either through CCS framework partners, network, affiliates, associates and beyond) to deliver the best contribution.
Development and delivery of major events including production, event management (Above GBP 5 million).
The agency should have capability in understanding how paid, owned and earned solutions are best able to support the delivery of specific and overall programme and campaign outcomes.
The agency should be able to manage all fulfilment requirements across HMG. This will include Translation, transcreation, versioning services, all playout and distribution of assets to media across HMG, as well as delivering lower value adding creative tasks.
This prior information notice is to make the market aware of our upcoming requirement and opportunity for agencies in the creative and marketing area.
Crown Commercial Service intends to hold a series of market engagement events between December 2020 to January 2021 with industry experts and suppliers interested in potentially bidding for the resulting framework contract. If you are interested in attending a market engagement event please email creativecontentcomms@crowncommercial.gov.uk
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will use an eSourcing system for this competition and reserves the right to use an electronic auction. The eSourcing system we will use is https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk
Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so.
The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS website page https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/upcoming for updates.
Please note that for this and all new UK procurement opportunities which are launched after 23.00 on 31 December 2020, CCS will be required to publish notices relating to those procurements on the new UK Find a Tender Service (FTS). Notices will not be published on Tenders Electronic Daily (TED)/OJEU.
You are therefore advised to monitor FTS and contracts finder for the notification of the release of the ITT documents for this procurement.
Further information can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-sector-procurement-from-1-january-2021


Award value: 490000000