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The West of England Combined Authority

Public Relation/Communication Support - Key Projects

Business ServicesCPV 79416000
Value£1.5m
Deadline
Published10 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
Mitchell Darbon
mitchell.darbon@westofengland-ca.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
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This competitive flexible procedure will consist of two phases. The first stage of this opportunity will consist of a Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ). All suppliers, who wish to bid will be required to complete and return the PSQ to the Authority via the e-procurement system, before the deadline. All PSQ responses, received before the deadline, PSQ will be evaluated by officers of the Authority. The PSQ evaluation criteria is found in Attachment 2b of the ITT documents. The top five (5) scoring PSQ responses for each lot will be invited to proceed to the second phase. The 15 highest scoring suppliers, across the three lots, will proceed to the next stage of Invitation to Tender (“ITT”). Please register interest using our procurement system by registering below: https://weca-atamis.my.site.com/ProSpend__eSourcing_Community_Registration?locale=uk

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Contract value in context
£1.5mtotal 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 West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) is seeking to engage the market to help design and develop its scope of the provision of public relation/ communication support for key projects being delivered by the MCA, including: West Innovation Arc, Mass Transit and the Spatial Development Strategy.

The nature of these projects is highly political with various key stakeholders both internally and externally within the community.

They will require support for public consultation.

Please register interest using our procurement system by registering below: https://weca-atamis.my.site.com/ProSpend__eSourcing_Community_Registration?locale=uk

Requirements

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They will require support for public consultation

They will require support for public consultation.

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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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065362-2026
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