Official UK procurement notice
Appointment of Creative/Advertising Agency for Creative Campaign for Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (2025 Issue)
Authority: Royal Navy Museums (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Appointment of Creative/Advertising Agency for Creative Campaign for Portsmouth Historic Dockyard tender issued by the National Museum of the Royal Navy Operations (NMRN Operations) and Mary Rose Trust is for the provision of Creative/Marketing Agency services. This appointment is for an initial 12-month creative campaign for Portsmouth Historic Dockyard- with an option retained to extend for a further 12 months.
The NMRN and Mary Rose Trust (as joint operators of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard as PHD Operations) will host an Online Market Engagement Session to discuss the tender.
This is due to take place on Friday 7th November 2025, to ensure you book onto this Online Market Engagement Session and to ensure you receive an MS Teams Invite, please express an interest in this tender opportunity by emailing; tenders@nmrn.org.uk
Clarifications should be issued to the NMRN Tenders Inbox- tenders@nmrn.org.uk
CPV: Advertising and marketing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£60,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Lot awarding rule: The award of this tender will be done by a Point Per Quality Score Assessment, which is detailed in the ITT. With the award being on a combined quality and price assessment.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Cancelled
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 29 Oct 2025, 17:01 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Dec 2025, 08:37 GMT
- Authority reference
NMRNO.2025.014- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-069543- Latest notice
- Procurement termination notice (UK12)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d6a6Find a Tender
- Reserved participation area
- K02000001
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 24 Nov 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 14 Nov 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
All submissions are to be sent to tenders@nmrn.org.uk only, there is no other portal for this.
For more information about the NMRN please see www.nmrn.org.uk ↗
Timeline
29 Oct 2025 → 5 Jan 2026 · 5 dates- Tender notice published364 days ago29 Oct 2025, 17:01 GMT
- Clarification questions by349 days ago14 Nov 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadline339 days ago24 Nov 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Latest notice published321 days ago12 Dec 2025, 08:37 GMT
- Contract starts297 days ago5 Jan 2026
Notice history
5 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 Oct 2025- Tender notice published29 Oct 2025, 17:01 GMTUK4
- Tender notice published4 Nov 2025, 14:39 GMTUK4
- Tender notice published18 Nov 2025, 11:31 GMTUK4
- Procurement termination notice published12 Dec 2025, 08:37 GMTUK12
- Status changed to complete12 Dec 2025, 08:37 GMT
Published amendments (2)
Wording change to maintain accuracy.
Clarification Issue 1
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-10: 1 release · 29 Oct 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| supplier not published | — | 5 Dec 2025 | CancelledNational Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) has decided to withdraw the tender for the Appointment of Creative/Advertising Agency for Creative Campaign for Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (2025 Issue). The decision was reached following the evaluation of the fourteen bids received, as none achieved the minimum quality threshold of 60% set out in Section 5.2.2 of the Invitation to Tender (ITT): Tenderers who score below 60% of the total available weighted quality score of the initial scoring for this opportunity will not be shortlisted to be selected for this tender or post-submission interviews. It should also be noted that the NMRN applied the 60% threshold to Criteria 1-4, as Criteria 5 was reserved for those shortlisted for post-submission interviews to complete the full evaluation. Therefore, the decision was based on criteria available at the time of the evaluation. the initial evaluation. |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (8)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Invitation to Tender Document, Annex D-H including response forms for quality and price must be completed.
- Bidding documents and specifications Issue 1 of clarification responses.
- Bidding documents and specifications Included, with majority of information in Appendix 1, for reference.
- Bidding documents and specifications The main Scope of Requirement for this tender.
Notices published for this procedure
- Procurement termination notice Procurement termination notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender