Buyer Name: BORDER TO COAST PENSIONS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
Buyer Address: 5th Floor Toronto Square, Leeds, UKE42, LS1 2HJ, United Kingdom
Contact Email: procurement@bordertocoast.org.uk
Buyer Name: BORDER TO COAST PENSIONS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED
Buyer Address: 5th Floor Toronto Square, Leeds, UKE42, LS1 2HJ, United Kingdom
Contact Email: procurement@bordertocoast.org.uk
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is seeking a corporate communications agency to work with its Policy & Communications team. The appointed agency will act as a day-to-day extension of Border to Coast's team, helping it evolve its long-term communications strategy, spot and navigate issues that might affect the organisation or its partners, and carry out communications and public affairs activity and stakeholder engagement. The selected agency will ideally know the asset management and LGPS ecosystem and understand how regulatory, political and societal factors might impact our business. It will have experience engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and have excellent communications and thought leadership capabilities in both national and trade media (financial and business). 22 tenders were received and 3 suppliers were shortlisted to the final stage.
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Lot 1 Status: complete
Document Description: Not published
Contract Title: Strategic Communications
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