Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Transport for London · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Definition Group
- Value
- Not published
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Business services · Marketing services (CPV 79342000)
- Region
- North East
- Official notice
- 015166-2026 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date16 Feb 2026
- Published19 Feb 2026Published 3 days after the contract date
Description
Places for London (Places), needs the support of external creative agencies to assist them with meeting the BU annual turnover figure of £89m, which provides significant income into TfL and is set to grow considerably over the coming years. Whilst the needs of Places are similar to TfL, they differ mainly in the target audience, with their main target audiences being business to business (B2B). This along with a property derived backdrop, the supply bases are of a similar nature but differ slightly. Places requirements include the manufacturing of large print format campaign artwork, as well as technical aspects including survey sites, create artwork schematics and safely install artwork within both operational and non-operational settings.
About the supplier
Definition Group: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 14192023).