Official UK procurement notice
Creative Production and Media buying for Public Awareness Campaigns
Authority: The Electoral Commission (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Electoral Commission is the independent body which oversees elections and regulates political finance in the UK. We work to promote public confidence in the democratic process and ensure its integrity.
The Electoral Commission intends to commence a procurement process for the provision of creative production and media buying for our public awareness campaigns. This notice intends to alert the market of the upcoming opportunity only.
The successful agency will plan media strategies and buy media inventory and/or advertising space across the following (but not limited to), media channels:
TV advertising
Broadcast video on demand advertising
Radio advertising
Print advertising
Out of home advertising
Digital display advertising
Paid social
Paid search
They will also be responsible for creative strategy and will plan, create and produce the relevant assets for the chosen media channels. If relevant, they will also design the creative for any new public awareness campaigns.
The Electoral Commission's anticipated annual budget is £9m per annum [over 3 years]. This figure does not include spend incurred for unscheduled elections, nor does it include costs that may arise from legislative changes that may impact the Commission's work.
CPV: Advertising and marketing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 17 Apr 2025, 15:04 BST
- Last source update
- 16 May 2025, 16:32 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-022380- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050502Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
17 Apr 2025 → 31 Jul 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published17 Apr 2025, 15:04 BST
- Latest notice published16 May 2025, 16:32 BST
- Tender notice expected359 days ago1 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts133 days ago16 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
- Market engagement87 days ago31 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Online Meet the buyer event planned for 5th June 2025
Notice history
5 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 17 Apr 2025- Pipeline notice published17 Apr 2025, 15:04 BSTUK1
- Pipeline notice published8 May 2025, 11:39 BSTUK1
- Pipeline notice published8 May 2025, 14:01 BSTUK1
- Published value updated to £22,500,0008 May 2025, 14:01 BSTwas £27,000,000
- Preliminary market engagement notice published16 May 2025, 16:32 BSTUK2
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-04: 1 release · 17 Apr 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender