How to win: Communications and Engagement Framework

About this contract

Liverpool City Council (LCC) delivers a wide range of communications, marketing, engagement and insight activities to support city priorities, service delivery, behaviour change campaigns and community engagement. This includes planned programmes as well as reactive or time-sensitive work requiring rapid mobilisation of specialist suppliers. Liverpool City Council requires access to a flexible and scalable supplier framework to deliver communications, marketing, research and engagement services. This includes both planned and reactive work that requires rapid mobilisation of specialist suppliers, often within tight timescales and across diverse communities. The objective of this framework is to provide LCC with a compliant procurement route for accessing a range of communications, marketing, creative, media, and research suppliers to deliver high-quality and impactful services.

How to win contracts like this

• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Liverpool City Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £13,000,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 20 November 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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