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Social-First Creative Agency

Business ServicesCPV 79341400
Value£900k
Deadline28 Sept 2026
Published2 Sept 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 2 Sept 202625 days leftCloses 28 Sept 2026
Who to contact
procurement@nestcorporation.org.uk

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How to submit
Open the submissions portal

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Contract value in context
£900ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

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The brief

Nest is seeking a social-first agency partner to help review, evolve and deliver Nest’s organic social media activity.

Social plays a distinctive, upper-funnel role for Nest building familiarity, trust and brand relevance with audiences long before they are actively thinking about their pension.

The partner will bring specialist strategic and creative expertise to help Nest produce more engaging, entertaining and culturally relevant organic content, with a particular focus on growing our presence on emerging platforms such as TikTok, as part of our wider ambition to ‘banish the dull’ from pensions communications.

This procurement is for organic social media only.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidProfessional indemnity insurance
  • Show at bidNamed engagement team with CVs
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f00e
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
082895-2026
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