AwardedAwarded 4 March 2026

Issues Management Societal Issue Planning and Scenario

Orbit Group Limited · Local authority

In brief

Orbit Group Limited awarded consultancy and marketing work to Sodali & Co on 4 March 2026.

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What the notice says

Sodali & Co Limited will support Orbit in the role of strategic communications advisers to provide the following scope of services relating to the planning and implementation of an issues management workshop: Stage one: • Creation of a corporate positioning statement that aligns with Orbit's vision • A working session for Orbit and Sodali in London to: o Review Orbit's business continuity plans (high level) and share lessons learnt from Perry St o Discuss and agree potential issues scenarios (incident-based e.g. social media post/ rumour inciting hate, similar to Perry Street; a riot; incident requiring lockdown; health and safety incident such as a fire etc.) o Discuss how Orbit would…Read the full description
Sodali & Co Limited will support Orbit in the role of strategic communications advisers to provide the following scope of services relating to the planning and implementation of an issues management workshop: Stage one: • Creation of a corporate positioning statement that aligns with Orbit's vision • A working session for Orbit and Sodali in London to: o Review Orbit's business continuity plans (high level) and share lessons learnt from Perry St o Discuss and agree potential issues scenarios (incident-based e.g. social media post/ rumour inciting hate, similar to Perry Street; a riot; incident requiring lockdown; health and safety incident such as a fire etc.) o Discuss how Orbit would respond (operationally and reputationally) based on its existing business continuity plans • The Sodali team to then work these findings up into a workshop to be held at Orbit's office in Coventry with its communications and Silver IMT teams to discuss how the company would respond • The output from this session would then be developed into two workstreams: the creation of a specific section for Orbit's Issues Management Procedure (communications focused but with operational considerations), and recommendations for the various teams to implement Stage two: • Sodali to help design and run a scenario day with Silver IMT to test that the learnings have been factored into internal plans and to identify any gaps

Who won

WinnerValueDates
Sodali & Co£33,750
5 March 2026 to 4 January 2027

Values as the award notice gives them, excluding VAT where stated.

Timeline

  1. Contract details notice · UK7, notice 022043-2026

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From notice 022043-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 11 March 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.