Companies to battle for NTMA’s PR contract

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) is set to spark a major scramble among the country’s top public relations agencies as it puts its prestigious PR contract up for re-tender.

The NTMA — which controls the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) and the National Pension Reserve Fund — gifted PR firms €114m from Nama’s inception to January of this year.

That figure does not include the amount spent by Nama on public and media relations and Dublin- based firm, Gordon MRM won the NTMA PR contract in 2010 that is now coming to an end.