Higher Education Marketing Agency to Support the Implementation of Student Recruitment Campaigns

Concepts

• marketing services
• chester
• campaign strategy
• postgraduate and international student recruitment campaigns
• student recruitment campaigns
• its student recruitment campaigns
• higher education
• education marketing agency
• a specialist higher education marketing agency
• higher education marketing agency

Location

Chester

Description

The University of Chester is seeking tenders for a specialist Higher Education marketing agency through the UK Open Procedure under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 to support primarily with media planning and buying for its student recruitment campaigns. This will be a two-year contract with the option to extend for a further 24-months on a year-by-year basis. Although the University is looking for an agency to help principally with media planning and buying, the expectation is that the successful agency will work collaboratively with the University on campaign strategy, providing relevant audience, market, and competitor insights to help the University gain a competitive advantage. Further to this, from time-to-time, the University may wish to tap into any creative services available within the agency to help with the production of creative assets and development of our messaging strategy.

Total Quantity or Scope

The specific requirements of this contract are for the implementation of our 2024, 2025 and 2026 UK student recruitment campaigns. It should be noted that a media plan for the pre-application stage of the 2024 recruitment campaign is already being implemented, so the initial focus, following the award of a contract, will be on post application conversion and late applications for the 2024 cycle, as well as early engagement for the 2025 cycle. Further to this, we may also require support for postgraduate and international student recruitment campaigns. Further details are available in the tender documents.Please note the estimated total value includes the optional extension periods.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 79342000 - Marketing services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• This is a recurring contract.
• Renewals are not available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.