Strategic Communications

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership LimitedcontractFind a TenderRef ocds-h6vhtk-051366Procurement Act 2023active
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Published

06 Nov 2025

Description

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is seeking a corporate communications agency to work with its Policy & Communications team. The appointed agency will act as a day-to-day extension of Border to Coast's team, helping it evolve its long-term communications strategy, spot and navigate issues that might affect the organisation or its partners, and carry out communications and public affairs activity and stakeholder engagement. The selected agency will ideally know the asset management and LGPS ecosystem and understand how regulatory, political and societal factors might impact our business. It will have experience engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and have excellent communications and thought leadership capabilities in both national and trade media (financial and business). 22 tenders were received and 3 suppliers were shortlisted to the final stage.

Scope

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DN774718
Commercial tool
Standalone contract
Contract dates
30 Sept 2025 to 30 Sept 2027
Possible extension to 30 Sept 2029

Initial contract term of 24 months, with 1x 24 month extension available.

CPV classifications
79416200

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NameDescriptionTypeWeighting
Quality Criteriaquality70.00%
Price/Value for Moneyprice20.00%
Presentation stage 2 scorequality10.00%

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Competitive flexible procedure

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