Published date: 1 December 2025

Last edited date: 1 December 2025

Open opportunity - This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.


Closing: 18 January 2026, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

  • Design and execution of research and development - 73300000

  • Market research services - 79310000

    • Design consultancy services - 79415200

Location of contract

United Kingdom

Value of contract

£35,000

Procurement reference

CDP-G3B2

Published date

1 December 2025

Closing date

18 January 2026

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

2 March 2026

Contract end date

13 April 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Private procurement rules

Supply chain notices are business-to-business transactions and are not bound by the same rules and restrictions as public sector contracts. The UK government is not responsible for the conduct of such procurement.

Description

Our new strategy (2025-2030) sets a bold ambition to increase our influence and enhance our offer to countries. It reflects our drive to respond to national priorities and bring people together around our shared mission. We aim to deliver measurable progress in the disaster finance system, while supporting national and international partners to design and deliver effective, equitable solutions.

To achieve this, we need to be more targeted and strategic in how we engage across a global ecosystem of actors. Our audiences range from government ministries, central agencies, and national disaster management authorities, to regional institutions, multilateral organisations, civil society networks, research partners and funders.

The audience strategy will give us an organisation-wide framework to help ensure our evidence, policy and engagement and advisory work has maximum influence and uptake; and to support our future funding strategy. 

The selected supplier will:
• Conduct analysis to identify and prioritise key audiences
• Create audience segmentation outputs (functional tiers and archetypes)
• Develop messaging and engagement guidance tailored to priority groups
• Go beyond strategy slides and provide tools, training and recommendations to embed the strategy into practice across teams
Approach & methodology

Methodology may include:
• Desk research and review of existing strategic documents, partnerships and engagement activities
• Interviews or workshops with internal teams
• External stakeholder interviews for insight testing
• Co-design of outputs with Heads-of-functions to ensure usability and adoption

Proposals should detail:
• How insight will be gathered and validated
• How prioritisation decisions will be reached
• How adoption and internal use will be supported

Application process
Interested suppliers are invited to submit a written proposal outlining their suitability for
delivering the services described in this Terms of Reference. Proposals should include:
• Outline of a methodology and approach for fulfilling the ToR requirements
• A brief overview of the supplier and team, including a CV for each person on the team
detailing their experience and qualifications
• A description of how the supplier meets each of the experience and evaluation criteria
listed above (max. 2 pages).
• Examples of previous work relevant to the scope of services
• A proposed daily rate and any applicable VAT or additional costs
• Outline of proposed budget with time and cost implications. This should be broken down
by individual, day rate and number of days required
• Contact details for two recent clients who can provide references.

Proposals should be submitted by email to jobs_centre@disasterprotection.org with the
subject line: Proposal Submission: Communications - Audience Strategy & Plan
All questions should be emailed to jobs_centre@disasterprotection.org by 11:59pm UK time, 5
th December.

More information

Attachments

How to apply

Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.

About the buyer

Contact name

Maaria Azhar

Address

51 Eastcheap
LONDON
EC3M 1DT
England

Telephone

07979822086

Email

jobs_centre@disasterprotection.org

Website

https://www.disasterprotection.org/