Media Planning and Buying and associated services

Post Office seeks to enter into contracts for :

Lot one : Media Planning and Buying services to help the Post Office identify and select the best media channels in which to place its marketing activity for brand/propositions, products and services and manage and deliver the media buying aspect of those channels and the provision of any relevant tools (including reporting tools). This includes Attribution Modelling including Econometric Modelling. The estimated value of this Lot is in the range of 12.5m to 65m GBP ex VAT over 5 years. This includes the value of our media buying spend which is currently in the range of 7-9m GBP ex VAT annually for this Lot. Please note that all figures given are subject to change and Post Office cannot guarantee these.

Lot two : Management of Affiliates (publishers who promote Post Office products who are recruited through direct relationships and the contracted Affiliate Network) and Aggregators (Price Comparison Websites) to enhance relationships, identify new relationships, grow performance, deliver reporting and process payments. The estimated value of this Lot is in the range of 5m to 50m GBP ex VAT over 5 years. Please note that all figures given are subject to change and Post office cannot guarantee these.

Additional information: Suppliers instructions concerning how to express an interest in this Tender.

Suppliers who are interested in this requirement will need to register on the Post Office e-sourcing portal and access the following project AA1050 Media Planning and Buying SQ. They will need to complete and submit a Selection Questionnaire and NDA on the Post Office e-sourcing portal. To do this access the portal using this link : https://postoffice.wax-live.com

This will take you to a log on screen.

Click on the "Register Here" button.

This will take you to a registration form to complete and submit which will result in an email giving login/activation details.

Please note that the log on/activation email may appear in your Spam folder.

The instructions can also be found at the following link

http://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/media/46624/web3-user-guide-supplier-log-on-and-register.pdf

If there are issues logging in please email both susy.page@postoffice.co.uk and emma.usherwood@postoffice.co.uk.

Training materials for use of our portal for suppliers is at

http://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/media/46623/web3-user-guide-sourcing-supplier-guide.pdf

The OJEU Notice for this requirement is reference 2020/S 093-223312. A corrigendum reference 2020/S 095-228409 amending the closing date has also been published.