01 Procurement
Tender overview
- Buyer
- AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE DEVELOPMENT BOARD
- Status
- Complete
- Procurement method
- Open procedure
- Category
- services
- CPV classification
- Not supplied
- Tender period
- Not supplied — 16 September 2026
Description
Awarded - AHDB is seeking an experienced social media planning and buying agency to develop, deliver, implement and optimise paid social campaigns across its Beef & Lamb, Pork and Dairy sectors. Campaign activity will support and integrate with AHDB's broader always on marketing programme, ensuring a coordinated and impactful approach across campaign bursts and key periods. They will work alongside the current social media agency who develop the creative content for campaigns and manage paid advertising outside of campaign bursts. The successful agency will act as a partner to AHDB, working collaboratively to maximise the campaign performance, audience engagement and return on investment. The agency will bring proven expertise in delivering high-performing consumer food and drink campaigns, leveraging audience insight, data-driven planning and platform-specialist knowledge to achieve both awareness, reach and behavioural change objectives, while delivering measurable business outcomes. The successful agency should demonstrate: • Strong experience planning and buying large-scale paid social campaigns. • Experience within food or drink • Strong understanding of health-conscious and family audiences. • Expertise across Meta, TikTok, Pinterest and future social platforms. • A proven track record of delivering measurable improvements in campaign performance and return on investment • Excellent analytical capability, reporting and insight generation.
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02 Awards and contracts
Published award records
2026-821 Social for Campaign Media Buying
- Awarded
- 19 October 2026
- Award value
- £5,000,000
- Suppliers
- 1
- Signed contract
- Not supplied
03 Organisations
Buyers, suppliers and other parties
AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE DEVELOPMENT BOARD
Middlemarch Business Park, Coventry, UKG13, CV3 4SU, United Kingdom
GB-PPON PBHX-8363-MBBVLux Illuminating Brands
27 Maritime Street, Edinburgh, UKM75, EH6 6SE, United Kingdom
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04 Provenance
Source for this process
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