Local Democracy Reporting Service - 2025 Supplier Applications
key details
| Value | £32,500,000 |
|---|---|
| Status | complete |
| Category (CPV) | 79620000 |
| Deadline | 3 Jan 2025 |
| Procedure | open |
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-04c196 |
Awards (16)
This procurement was awarded to 15 suppliers. Values shown are per-award; the notice total is £32,500,000.
| Supplier | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baylis Community Media CiC shared | · | · | active |
| Brighton and Hove News Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| Caerphilly Media Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| DC Thomson & Co Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| Highland News and Media Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| Iliffe Media Group shared | · | · | active |
| National World Publishing Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| Newbury News & Media Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| Newsquest Media Group Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| Radio Manx Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| Reach Shared Services Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| Shetland News Online Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| Social Spider CiC shared | · | · | active |
| The University of Northampton Enterprises Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| Tindle Newspapers Ltd shared | · | · | active |
| not named shared | · | · | unsuccessful |
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 has now completed a 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.
notice history
2 notices published against this procurement.
| Published | Type | Regime | Notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Dec 2024 | Contract notice (F02) | Earlier regulations | 038797-2024 |
| 7 May 2025 | Contract award notice (F03) | Earlier regulations | 019292-2025 |
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