Northampton College is to tender to appoint a marketing agency to handle a range of communications services.

The college aims to appoint a marketing agency to oversee its design and creative output, as well as brand management, advertising, CRM, printing and distribution, online to print, prospectuses, exhibition and events services, data and media, web and online, internal communications market research, direct marketing and communications services for non-student recruitment.

The three-year-contract will see the successful agency also tasked to manage sub-contracts with existing providers of services to the college and will work with a budget of between £1, 050,000 and £1,350,000.

Between three and eight agencies are expected to tender for the contract with the deadline for expressions of interest expected by 4 March.