Published date: 31 January 2022

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 16 December 2021, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Sales, marketing and business intelligence software package - 48480000

  • Programming services of packaged software products - 72210000

Location of contract

North East

Value of contract

£123,000

Procurement reference

NCL001-DN584926-19440576

Published date

31 January 2022

Closing date

16 December 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 February 2022

Contract end date

31 January 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

We are seeking to appoint a supplier to work on the next phase of our marketing automation and CRM integration, which will support the optimisation of specific elements of the platform, as well as the introduction of new functionality, to further support the future growth of the organisation - nationally and internationally.

The supplier needs to have ability to support tactically, strategically and with implementation of new functionality as Newcastle University marketing department and the chosen platform develop.
The platform specifically is required to have ability to:

1) Host and maintain Newcastle University's contact databases
2) Contact segmentation
3) Lead scoring
4) Lead nurturing and generation
5) Marketing automation
6) Email communications and campaigns
7) Ability to manage and maintain contact enquiries centrally
8) Landing page creation
9) Ability to track paid activity and retarget contacts
10) Blog hosting and publishing
11) Chat agent and bot functionality
12) Detailed reporting and dashboards including attribution
13) CTAs and form submissions
14) Dedicated IP for email
15) Governance and user permissions/levels
16) Host content on multiple sub domains
17) Technical and strategical support
18) Website CMS
19) Capacity requirement: Minimum 217,000 contact records Minimum 150 user licences


Award information

Awarded date

31 January 2022

Contract start date

1 February 2022

Contract end date

31 January 2023

Total value of contract

£136,734

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

HubSpot

Address

Ground Floor,
Two Dockland Central,
Guild St, North Dock,
Dublin,
D01 K2C5

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No


About the buyer

Contact name

Natalie Morton

Address

Newcastle University
Procurement Services, Kingsgate
Newcastle
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 1912086396

Email

natalie.morton@ncl.ac.uk

Website

https://www.ncl.ac.uk