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AHDB requirements for Social Media activities

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79300000 79340000
Value£750k
Awarded7 Jul 2022
Published18 Oct 2022
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£750ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

AWARD - AHDB requires the specialist services of a social media agency to continue to deliver the 'always on' social media activity for AHDB's We Eat Balanced campaign, helping us achieve our goals, whilst ensuring the best return on our levy payers' money.

We are looking for a supplier with experience of running large social campaigns that focus on positively influencing consumer attitudes.

We Eat Balanced is AHDB's flagship consumer marketing campaign, launched as a pilot in January 2021.

The We Eat Balanced social media channels were initially launched to host advertising content for this pilot, but due to the successful results, 'always on' social media activity has since been activated, as well as further large TV-led advertising campaign bursts.

AHDB does have an in-house social media team, however they currently do not have enough capacity to support this workstream in full, hence it has so far been outsourced, but it may be brought back in-house in future.

Note: although this brief focuses on We Eat Balanced, there's potential for AHDB to also need support for its other social media channels in future.

This contract will be initially for 18 months with the option to extend for a further 2 periods of 12 months each Suppliers must register on the Bravo portal in order to gain access to this opportunity and the documents

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

AHDB requires the specialist services of

AHDB requires the specialist services of a social media agency to continue to deliver the 'always on' social media activity for AHDB's We Eat Balanced campaign, helping us achieve our goals, whilst ensuring the best return on our levy payers' money.

02

AHDB does have an in-house social media

AHDB does have an in-house social media team, however they currently do not have enough capacity to support this workstream in full, hence it has so far been outsourced, but it may be brought back in-house in future.

03

Note: although this brief focuses on We

Note: although this brief focuses on We Eat Balanced, there's potential for AHDB to also need support for its other social media channels in future.

04

Suppliers must register on the Bravo portal

Suppliers must register on the Bravo portal in order to gain access to this opportunity and the documents.

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Stage
contract · Contract
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Buyer ref
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