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The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London

Media Buying Services for Guildhall School

Business ServicesCPV 79341400
Value£900k
Deadline
Published27 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
daria.faeti@cityoflondon.gov.uk
020 7606 3030

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
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This tendering exercise is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system ‘City of London Corporation Sourcing & Contracts Portal’ (https://cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/) Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free. Once registered, Suppliers can access the opportunity by clicking on th following link: https://cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/0096284401A044319E51

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Contract value in context
£900ktotal 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.

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The brief

The City invites Bidders to complete and submit a request to participate in the Procurement for the provision of Media Buying Services for the Guildhall School.

Guildhall School is where passion meets purpose.

We deliver world-class professional training in music, drama, production and design across our iconic, state-of-the-art facilities in the heart of the City of London.

The School is seeking an experienced supplier to provide strategic digital media planning and buying services to support the recruitment of students, programme participants and audiences across the full range of the School’s activities.

The successful supplier will be responsible for developing and delivering effective paid media strategies, ensuring that the School’s media budget is used in the most creative, efficient and impactful way possible.

This will include strategic planning, media buying, campaign optimisation, performance monitoring and reporting.

Suppliers with a strong track record in digital media planning and buying, particularly within the higher education sector, are invited to participate in the Invitation to Participate (ITP) stage of this procurement process.

This tendering exercise is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system ‘City of London Corporation Sourcing & Contracts Portal’ (https://cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/) Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free.

The estimated contract value given at sections 31 and 32 is for the full duration of the contract including the maximum possible extensions.

The estimated annual contract value is therefore £225,000 exc.

VAT)

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

We deliver world-class professional training in music

We deliver world-class professional training in music, drama, production and design across our iconic, state-of-the-art facilities in the heart of the City of London.

02

The successful supplier will be responsible

The successful supplier will be responsible for developing and delivering effective paid media strategies, ensuring that the School’s media budget is used in the most creative, efficient and impactful way possible.

03

This tendering exercise is being undertaken using

This tendering exercise is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system ‘City of London Corporation Sourcing & Contracts Portal’ (https://cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/) Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free.

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