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AHDB Health Care Professional communications Agency requirements

AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE DEVELOPMENT BOARD

Buyer Contact Info

Buyer Name: AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE DEVELOPMENT BOARD

Buyer Address: Middlemarch Business Park, Coventry, UKG13, CV3 4SU, United Kingdom

Contact Name: Sarah Waters

Contact Email: procurement@ahdb.org.uk

Status
complete
Procedure
open
Value
375000.0 GBP
Published
05 Jan 2026, 09:42
Deadline
n/a
Contract Start
31 Mar 2026, 23:00
Contract End
31 Mar 2027, 22:59
Category
n/a
CPV
79416200 - Public relations consultancy services
Region
n/a
Awarded To
HRS Communications Ltd
Official Source
Open Find a Tender

Description

Award notification - AHDB were seeking a specialist healthcare communication partner to help shape our health and nutrition strategy, providing credible evidence-based nutrition expertise to support our health care communications and stakeholder engagement plan, including the evaluations thereof, and shape wider conversations about British farming and food. The successful agency should have experience of specialist health care communications, with a particular focus on nutrition, and be able to provide a vast depth of healthcare professional experience within their team.

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Opportunity Context

Lots

Lot 1 Status: complete

Awards

Award Title: AHDB Health Care Professional communications Agency requirements

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