Buyer Name: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Buyer Address: Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA, England
Contact Name: Joseph Thompson
Contact Email: joseph.thompson@bbc.co.uk
Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) - 2025 Supplier Applications
Buyer Contact Info
Status
complete
complete
Procedure
open
open
Value
32500000.0 GBP
32500000.0 GBP
Published
07 May 2025, 09:39
07 May 2025, 09:39
Deadline
16 Jan 2025, 14:00
16 Jan 2025, 14:00
Contract Start
30 Jun 2025, 23:00
30 Jun 2025, 23:00
Contract End
30 Jun 2030, 22:59
30 Jun 2030, 22:59
Category
services
services
CPV
79620000 - Supply services of personnel including temporary staff
79620000 - Supply services of personnel including temporary staff
Region
n/a
n/a
Awarded To
Baylis Community Media CiC, Brighton and Hove News Ltd, DC Thomson & Co Ltd, Iliffe Media Group, National World Publishing Ltd, Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Reach Shared Services Ltd, Social Spider CiC, Tindle Newspapers Ltd, Caerphilly Media Ltd, Highland News & Media Ltd, Radio Manx Ltd, Newbury News & Media Ltd, Shetland News Online Ltd, University of Northampton Enterprises Ltd
Baylis Community Media CiC, Brighton and Hove News Ltd, DC Thomson & Co Ltd, Iliffe Media Group, National World Publishing Ltd, Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Reach Shared Services Ltd, Social Spider CiC, Tindle Newspapers Ltd, Caerphilly Media Ltd, Highland News & Media Ltd, Radio Manx Ltd, Newbury News & Media Ltd, Shetland News Online Ltd, University of Northampton Enterprises Ltd
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Description
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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