PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

MCard Integrated Campaign 2025

West Yorkshire Combined Authority · published 28 Jul 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release IDebf0b8bf-9803-4449-b2c0-ee993ee81641-856329
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-6ba0b311-174c-402e-b89d-6f8c182169ac
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-192422
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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Award value
£599,860
award field
Tender value
Not disclosed
tender field
Procurement method
Restricted procedure
Category
services
CPV
79340000
Advertising and marketing services
Delivery
Not stated
LS1 2DE
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The West Yorkshire Ticketing Company Ltd. (MCard), in collaboration with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority has appointed The Ark Marketing & Media Ltd to develop and deliver a marketing and communications strategy. The strategy, running initially from 22nd July 2025 to 31 March 2026 with a possible extension to 31 March 2027, should build on current initiatives and focus on three workstreams: MCard USPs - Brand/App awareness of multi-operator/modal tickets, Transitioning young people through each ticket range - Under 19s to 19-25s and 19-25s to adults and engaging key stakeholders to amplify our message and Growing the commuter market once a review of the existing ticket range has taken place. These campaign workstreams will serve as the foundation for marketing activities over the forthcoming year.

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release28 Jul 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published11 Jun 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published21 Jul 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2027
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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Published name only

The Ark Marketing & Media Ltd

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 28 Jul 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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