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Communications Marketplace

Crown Commercial Service · UK-wide · up to £260,000,000

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What the buyer wants

A Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for central government and wider public sector organisations to procure a wide range of marketing and communications services from specialist agencies, organised into categories for service offering, audience, outcome, and location.

The Communications Marketplace DPS Agreement will provide central government and wider public sector organisations with a means of procuring a wide range of marketing and communications services via a dynamic list of specialist agencies. Upon application to join the DPS Agreement, agencies are required to indicate which categories and services they are able to provide and bid for.

The Communications Marketplace will be organised into distinct categories to enable Agencies to select all elements relevant to their service offering.

Clients can filter the elements to produce a shortlist of Agencies to invite to a competition.

The four (4) distinct categories comprise of:

Services

Audience

Outcome

Location for delivery

Within these filters are further sub-filters that agencies can select to demonstrate the level of services they can provide.

Additional information: ​Please note the Closing Date, Contract Start Date and Contract End Date have been manipulated to support compatibility system issues.

Please refer to the contract notice for the correct dates and timelines.

00 - Other NUTS code

The term of this DPS has been updated and is now 4 year + 2 year + 2 year

The first of two (2) year lawful extension will be utilised to allow RM6124 to have a new expiry date of 4th September 2027

The justification for the extension is:

- to ensure continuity of service in a unique and specialist field. Government departments rely on Communications and it's related services to delivery a wide range of of initiatives and campaigns

- the spend for this DPS continues to grow year on year. With a first year spend of £3.1m growing by over 5 times it's value to £16.4m in year two

- support WPS and ALBs, spend from these sectors are growing in response to increased customer confidence and is in line with overall CCS business strategy

-This DPS allows for SMEs to access Government tenders with lower barriers to entry. Government departments are keen to work with SMEs inline with social value policies

- scope is consistently updated to reflect market changes and innovation like no other framework in the market can do.

Description as published on Contracts Finder: read the official notice.

How Tenderoo reads it

This is a dynamic purchasing system (a dynamic market under the Procurement Act): suppliers can apply to join at any point while it runs, and work is awarded in rounds to the members. A missed deadline is not the end of it.

The notice reads as suitable for a small or medium-sized firm: the scope, value and requirements are within reach of a business of that size.

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