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Published 2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Media Monitoring & Sentiment Analysis

Official notice

Authority: Wales & West Utilities Limited

ServicesBelow threshold - open competitionBelow thresholdUtilitiesSME suitable
Published estimate£320,000≈ £80k / year · £384,000 inc. VAT
Submissions closed 30 Apr 2025
Contract term 4 yrsends 31 Oct 2029 · up to 31 Oct 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Nov 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

We need comprehensive media monitoring and social listening services, providing reputation and sentiment analysis to help us identify the most relevant commentary across the fullest range of media and social channels. Wherever Wales &West Utilities (WWU) is being mentioned, we need to know about it and we need to understand whether our audience is talking positively or negatively about us and where we stand among the noise.

We need access to real time information and clean data to help inform our communication campaigns, media engagement and stakeholder strategies. Data is vital to us in understanding the needs of our customers and monitoring customer feedback is integral to the work we do. Overall, we need a service that provides us with the information and data we need to get ahead of emerging trends across our industry and the energy sector as a whole.

Requirements:

  • 24/7 multi-channel media monitoring covering broadcast, print media, online news, and social media across the UK
  • Daily reports of the main media stories and mentions with links to original content, delivered to specified in-boxes each day, 7 days per week
  • Real time news coverage and alerts for breaking news stories and conversations relevant to our business
  • Monthly 'Executive-ready' reports, analysis and recommendations
  • Integrated media licensing for digital access to original content, if possible
  • Social listening to provide insights into stakeholder and customer sentiment about WWU to help inform business strategies and enhance customer service(unified customer management functionality)
  • Access to day-to-day brand monitoring and analysis
  • Ability to visualise complex data including charts and graphs
  • User friendly and intuitive digital platform/dashboard for customisable self-analysis and for searching for relevant news items
  • Assigned account manager to develop full appreciation of our business needs and to identify reputational risks and opportunities
  • Integrated function to run tagged social media campaigns
  • Ability to respond to comments and messages via the platform, as well as assign tasks and schedule social media and PR releases
  • Multiple product licenses to engage colleagues across the business

Metrics and analysis:

  • Volume of mentions and potential reach of mentions of WWU across multiple channels
  • Share of voice per platform: Identifying where our brand is being mentioned to help us identify where we should focus our time and energy
  • Sentiment analysis to understand how WWU is being perceived in discussions online, broken down by key variables including social media platform
  • Trends analysis: The most common topics associated with WWU
  • Top publications: The publications that are talking about our brand the most
  • Top location: Where our brand mentions a re originating from
  • Top influencers and journalists: Who mentions our brand, products and/or key stakeholders
  • Industry benchmarking and comparisons across a range of metrics

CPV: Advertising and marketing services · Data-processing services · Market research services · News-agency services · Statistical services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Renewal 4 yrsSMEPublished value£320,000
Contract period: 1 Nov 2025 – 31 Oct 2029 (4 yrs) · up to 31 Oct 2032 with extensionsValue: £320,000 exc. VAT · £384,000 inc. VAT
Eligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: The contract will be for a term of 4 years, with 3 extension options of 12 months each.

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids were scored

Lot awarding rule: Questions will be awarded sores between 0 - 100 depending on the specific question and details of the scoring will be provided to the bidders with the ITT. Scoring Weightings: Technical will be awarded 50%. Stakeholder is currently working on the technical questions that will surround: •Previous experience •Account Management •Implementation and exit plan strategy •Capacity & capability to provide platform monitoring and social media listening trends Commercial will be awarded 50%. •This will be requested as a schedule of rates and fixed for the first 12 months of the contract •Pricing will be scored as the lowest price being awarded 100% of the weighting for this section No site visits will be required as this is an external software-based programme, and it does not need to interlink with any existing WWU software. However, we may consider inviting bidders to present their software. This yet to be confirmed and if it will be included in the scoring.

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
Closed
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
Regulatory regime
Utilities
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST
Last source update
2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST
Authority reference
WWU1327
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-012503
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Advertising and marketing servicesData-processing servicesMarket research servicesNews-agency servicesStatistical services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fbea Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Jaggaer · Who buys & how to bid on JAGGAER
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowed
Access & registration note: Free; latest Chrome/Edge/Firefox only — corporate browsers fail
Submission deadline
30 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST
Clarification deadline
16 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Suppliers not already registered in the Bravo system will also need to complete the Bravo registration process. To register in the Bravo system please proceed to the WWU procurement portal at the following web address and click "Register", sourcing4wwu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html ↗

For support during the registration process please visit the how to register section of the portal, or contact Bravo Solution through the following routes: Phone: 0800 0698630 Email: help@bravosolution.co.uk

Timeline

2 Apr 2025 → 1 Nov 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Tender notice published
    2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST
  2. Clarification questions by
    16 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST
  3. Submission deadline
    30 Apr 2025, 12:00 BST
  4. Contract starts361 days ago
    1 Nov 2025

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    2 Apr 2025, 12:50 BST
    UK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Wales & West Utilities Limited

Contracting authorityPrivate utility GB-COH: 05046791 · GB-PPON: PMVL-3238-DQDX Wales & West House, Newport, Wales, NP10 8FZContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender