Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) - 2025 Supplier Applications

A Contract Award Notice
by THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (BBC)

Source
Contracts Finder
Type
Framework (Services)
Duration
5 year
Value
£32M
Sector
BUSINESS
Published
07 May 2025
Delivery
01 Jul 2025 to 30 Jun 2030
Deadline
16 Jan 2025 14:00

Concepts

Location

Geochart for 1 buyers and 15 suppliers

1 buyer

15 suppliers

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.

Award Detail

1 Baylis Community Media CIC (Maidenhead)
  • Value: £32,500,000
2 Brighton & Hove News (Brighton)
  • Value: £32,500,000
3 DC Thomson (Dundee)
  • Value: £32,500,000
4 Iliffe Media Group (Rochester)
  • Value: £32,500,000
5 National World Publishing (Leeds)
  • Value: £32,500,000
6 Newsquest Media Group (Newport)
  • Value: £32,500,000
7 Reach Shared Services (London)
  • Value: £32,500,000
8 Social Spider CIC (London)
  • Value: £32,500,000
9 Tindle Newspapers (Farnham)
  • Value: £32,500,000
10 Caerphilly Media (Caerphilly)
  • Value: £32,500,000
11 Highland News & Media (Elgin)
  • Value: £32,500,000
12 Radio Manx (Douglas)
  • Value: £32,500,000
13 Newbury News & Media (Newbury)
  • Value: £32,500,000
14 Shetland News Online (None)
  • Value: £32,500,000
15 Northampton Enterprises University (Northampton)
  • Value: £32,500,000

CPV Codes

  • 79620000 - Supply services of personnel including temporary staff

Indicators

  • Contract is suitable for SMEs.
  • Contract is suitable for VCOs.

Reference

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