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Awarded · ResultStage · award

Northern Trains Limited

Public Affairs Agency

Business ServicesCPV 79416200
Value£153,600
Awarded
Published22 Nov 2022
RegionNationwide

£153,600 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded
Field Consulting Ltd

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

Who to contact
Steve Bolton
steve.bolton@northernrailway.co.uk
+44 7929708789

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£154ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

NTL require a public affairs agency to provide senior counsel to the leadership team, stakeholder and communications teams, working at both a strategic and tactical level.

The nature of the public affairs advice and steer we require sits within the context of our current operating model of public ownership and this must underpin the strategy and approach taken by the agency.

The Supplier must uphold standards of public affairs by complying with the PRCA Public Affairs code of conduct or similar.The scope of these requirements has been split into the following three areas: insight, strategy and tactical engagement.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

NTL require a public affairs agency

NTL require a public affairs agency to provide senior counsel to the leadership team, stakeholder and communications teams, working at both a strategic and tactical level.

02

The nature of the public affairs advice

The nature of the public affairs advice and steer we require sits within the context of our current operating model of public ownership and this must underpin the strategy and approach taken by the agency.

03

The Supplier must uphold standards of public

The Supplier must uphold standards of public affairs by complying with the PRCA Public Affairs code of conduct or similar.The scope of these requirements has been split into the following three areas: insight, strategy and tactical engagement.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0330f1
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
033050-2022
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