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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

UNIVERSITY OF DERBY

Chinese Media and Website Development

Business ServicesCPV 79342000
Value£240k
Awarded17 May 2021
Published6 Jul 2021
RegionEast Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£240ktotal 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

The University of Derby wishes to invite tenders for the award of a digital media, advertising, and website management contract.

The appointed contractor will be required to work with the University's Marketing and Communications and International departments to provide proactive strategic and tactical media buying and website management services to complement the University's core Chinese marketing and recruitment activities.

China has been identified as a tier 1 market for the University of Derby, with ambitious student recruitment growth targets.

The appointed contractor will support the University's corporate objectives and enhance engagement and recruitment across various stakeholder audiences.

This will require the development of integrated multi-channel campaign plans that are critical to enhancing the University's brand profile in China.

The University of Derby is continually growing and so may expand over the duration of the contract.

The contract duration is for two years from the contract start date with the option to extend for one year plus one further year.

The estimated value of the services to be ordered under the contract will be between £80,000 and £120,000 (excluding VAT) over the two years of the contract for Lots 1 and 2 combined, split approximately 80% media and 20% web services.

The contract with the current provider expires at the end of July 2021 and the new contract will start from 1 August 2021, however it is required to be in place prior to the start date to allow time for on-boarding etc.

Bidders must first register on Oracle before they can access the documents. https://ehih.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/fscmUI/faces/PrcPosRegisterSupplier?prcBuId=300000024761139

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The appointed contractor will be required

The appointed contractor will be required to work with the University's Marketing and Communications and International departments to provide proactive strategic and tactical media buying and website management services to complement the University's core Chinese marketing and recruitment activities.

02

The appointed contractor will support the University's

The appointed contractor will support the University's corporate objectives and enhance engagement and recruitment across various stakeholder audiences.

03

This will require the development of integrated

This will require the development of integrated multi-channel campaign plans that are critical to enhancing the University's brand profile in China.

04

The contract with the current provider expires

The contract with the current provider expires at the end of July 2021 and the new contract will start from 1 August 2021, however it is required to be in place prior to the start date to allow time for on-boarding etc.

05

Bidders must first register on Oracle before

Bidders must first register on Oracle before they can access the documents.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
9c394a0c-285c-4c05-8a8e-5d5811c7cedb
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
PROC MJW ITT/314
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