Karmarama, Mindshare and MediaCom have all been awarded places on the government’s new agency roster, ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 Solutions 2 – but a series of agencies selected in 2016 have lost out.
Karmarama is the only newcomer on the 12-strong Lot 1 of the roster, which covers End-to-End ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 Solutions.
The Accenture Interactive shop is joined by 11 agencies returning from last time: 23red, Adam & Eve/DDB, Engine, FCB Inferno, Four Communications, Freuds, Havas, M&C Saatchi, MullenLowe, Unlimited Group and VMLY&R (formerly Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R).
While Unlimited and Freuds are both listed on the Crown Commercial Service as solo agencies, each actually submitted as a consortium: Unlimited with Pablo, and Freuds with Wavemaker.
±±¾©Èü³µpk10 Solutions 2 is for end-to-end campaign management and is the successor to , created in 2016.
Seperately, the government is next year set to appoint a new roster for ad-hoc/tactical campaign services, Communications Marketplace, which will replace the Communications Services roster that was created in 2017.
While the previous ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 Solutions featured 26 agencies in a single category, ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 Solutions 2 is broken into five lots for specific services.
While Communications Services included a lot for media agencies, called Channel Strategy and Planning, this has now been moved to ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 Solutions 2 as Lot 2, Media Strategy and Planning.
It includes two agencies that were in the Communications Services roster, but did not appear in ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 Solutions: Mindshare and MediaCom.
They join fellow Group M agency Wavemaker (formerly MEC), and Manning Gottlieb OMD, which were on both ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 Solutions and Communications Services, as well as Four Communications and Havas, which were on Communications Services, but not Communications Services.
The other three lots cover Content Versioning and Distribution; Stock Imagery, Footage and Sound; and Events.
A dozen companies on the previous roster are not on ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 Solutions 2, though ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 understands some of them may have chosen to tender for the Communications Marketplace roster intead.
The agencies dropping off the list are Blue State Digital, Breakthrough Media Network (now Zinc Network), Cello Signal, George & Dragon, Independent ±±¾©Èü³µpk10 Partnership, Kindred, Lucky Generals, Mother, MSQ Partners, Ogilvy, Oliver and OMD UK.
Lucky Generals, Mother and Blue State all said they had declined to repitch.
Michael Wall, global chief executive at Mother, commented: “Earlier in the year we made the decision to not reapply to the government’s marketing framework. This was due to the demands of the new application and the impact it would have had on our resources, and most importantly on our people in terms of their existing workload – particularly during the height of the pandemic.
“It wasn’t an easy decision for us to take. Our past government work has delivered some highly successful campaigns, such as the long-running 'GREAT' campaign.”
±±¾©Èü³µpk10 has contacted each of the other nine agencies to ask whether they repitched. Kindred and MSQ declined to comment, while the others had not responded by the time of publication.
The government kicked off the process in April.
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