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| Source: | Contracts Finder |
| Notice Type: | Award notice |
| Buyer: | The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Main Category: | Services |
| Procurement Method: | Open procedure (above threshold) |
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Application Deadline
16 January 2025
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Estimated Value
£32,500,000
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| Estimated Value (ex. VAT): | £32,500,000 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2025 |
| Application Deadline: | 16 January 2025 |
| Contract Start Date: | 30 June 2025 |
| Contract End Date: | 30 June 2030 |
| Contract Duration: | 5.1 years |
| Procurement ID (OCID): | ocds-b5fd17-c2b74c1a-8ae0-4c2c-a0fc-336ce0cc10f6 |
| Notice Reference: | eeda95a8-048d-45a1-949d-4997a9a653a1-843975 |
All 2 notices for this procurement, oldest first.
Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) - 2025 Supplier Applications
Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) - 2025 Supplier Applications
Earlier notices predate the Procurement Act 2023 (commenced 24 Feb 2025) and therefore don't carry UK1–UK17 codes.
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Awarded to (15 suppliers)
| Award value: | £32,500,000 |
| Award decision date: | 6 April 2025 |
| Award status: | Active |
A key component of the BBC's public purpose mission is to ensure that audiences can engage fully with major local issues, essential to democracy, keeping audiences informed and holding local authority to account. The BBC works with the local news industry to improve the provision of local journalism and is now announcing the result of the competitive procurement for the reselection of 'Suppliers' for the Local Democracy Reporting Service across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. and the Isle of Man, to deliver the recruitment of 165 journalists, employed by local news providers, across 118 Contract Areas. This notice outlines the results of the tender process for the 2025 Supplier Applications following the tender which commenced in December 2024. In regards to total value of the contracts awarded, the level of funding the BBC provides in relation to each Local Democracy Reporter (LDR) (as stated in the ITT) is £40,790 per LDR (non-London) and £43,190 per LDR (London) per annum with a 2% inflationary increase per annum in year 2 onwards. The breakdown of the 165 LDRs allocated across each contract area was stated in the tender documents.
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