Communications Marketplace

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    "description": "The Communications Marketplace DPS Agreement will provide central government and wider public sector organisations with a means of procuring a wide range of marketing and communications services via a dynamic list of specialist agencies. Upon application to join the DPS Agreement, agencies are required to indicate which categories and services they are able to provide and bid for. \r\n\r\nThe Communications Marketplace will be organised into distinct categories to enable Agencies to select all elements relevant to their service offering.\r\nClients can filter the elements to produce a shortlist of Agencies to invite to a competition.\r\nThe four (4) distinct categories comprise of: \r\n\r\nServices\r\nAudience\r\nOutcome\r\nLocation for delivery\r\n\r\nWithin these filters are further sub-filters that agencies can select to demonstrate the level of services they can provide.\r\n\r\nAdditional information: \u200bPlease note the Closing Date, Contract Start Date and Contract End Date have been manipulated to support compatibility system issues. \r\nPlease refer to the contract notice for the correct dates and timelines.\r\n\r\nThe RM6124 Communications Marketplace DPS has been extended for 17 months until 23/02/29 to ensure service continuity for public sector bodies and charities. This extension utilises remaining contract options and complies with PA23 transitional provisions, allowing time to implement a replacement agreement while maintaining access to specialist marketing and communications services\r\n\r\nThe justification for the extension is:\r\n- to ensure continuity of service in a unique and specialist field. Government departments rely on Communications and it\u0027s related services to delivery a wide range of of initiatives and campaigns\r\n- the spend for this DPS continues to grow year on year. With a first year spend of \u00a33.1m growing by over 5 times it\u0027s value to \u00a316.4m in year two\r\n- support WPS and ALBs, spend from these sectors are growing in response to increased customer confidence and is in line with overall CCS business strategy\r\n-This DPS allows for SMEs to access Government tenders with lower barriers to entry. Government departments are keen to work with SMEs inline with social value policies\r\n- scope is consistently updated to reflect market changes and innovation like no other framework in the market can do.",
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