Communications and Engagement Framework

Buyer
Liverpool City Council
Value
£16,400,000
Closes
20 November 2026
Where
Liverpool, the North West
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

Liverpool City Council is looking for a framework of suppliers to provide communications, marketing, creative design, media buying, and research services. They need flexible access to specialists who can handle both planned campaigns and urgent, time-sensitive work across their various council services.

What the buyer wants

• Provide strategic communications planning, campaign development, public relations, and stakeholder engagement • Deliver graphic design, branding, video production, photography, and creative content for print and digital • Manage media planning and buying across digital, social, print, radio, outdoor and broadcast channels • Conduct research, behavioural insight work, and community consultation to support council decision-making

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Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

This is a large framework contract worth £16.4 million: most sole traders and very small agencies without existing council experience, established media relationships, or a track record of delivering complex multi-channel campaigns will struggle to win. You will need to demonstrate capacity, financial stability, and professional insurance.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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