Opportunity overview
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.
Awarded to
Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.
Reach Shared Services Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Status
- active
- Location
- London, UK, United Kingdom
View 3 award IDs
019292-2025-E(2,6,10,11,14,16,19,25,27,29,30,31,32,33,39,46,47,48,49,50,53,54,55,58,64,66,67)-6, 019292-2025-L(1,2,4,5,8,9,10,11,12), N(2,4,8,11)-7, 019292-2025-S(10,11,13,14,15,16,17), W(1,2,4,6,7,8)-8
Newsquest Media Group Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-E(3,7,8,18,20,22, 23, 24, 26, 34, 35, 37, 40, 42, 51, 52, 56, 57, 60, 65), N (7, 10), S9, W(3,5,11)-5
- Status
- active
- Location
- Newport, UK, United Kingdom
National World Publishing Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-E01, E04, E15, E21, E41, E44, E61, E62, E63, N01, N03, N05, N06, N09, S04, S12-4
- Status
- active
- Location
- Leeds, UK, United Kingdom
Iliffe Media Group
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-E05, E09, E13, E45-3
- Status
- active
- Location
- Rochester, UK, United Kingdom
The University of Northampton Enterprises Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-E12-17
- Status
- active
- Location
- Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Radio Manx Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-E28-14
- Status
- active
- Location
- Douglas, UK, United Kingdom
Newbury News & Media Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-E36-15
- Status
- active
- Location
- Newbury, UK, United Kingdom
Baylis Community Media CiC
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-E38-11
- Status
- active
- Location
- Maidenhead, UK, United Kingdom
Brighton and Hove News Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-E43-1
- Status
- active
- Location
- Brighton, UK, United Kingdom
Social Spider CiC
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-L03, L06, L07-9
- Status
- active
- Location
- London, UK, United Kingdom
DC Thomson & Co Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-S01, S05, S07, S08-2
- Status
- active
- Location
- Dundee, UK, United Kingdom
Highland News and Media Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-S02, S03-13
- Status
- active
- Location
- Elgin, UK, United Kingdom
Shetland News Online Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-S06-16
- Status
- active
- Location
- Shetland, UK, United Kingdom
Caerphilly Media Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-W09-12
- Status
- active
- Location
- Caerphilly, UK, United Kingdom
Tindle Newspapers Ltd
- Contract value
- £1
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Contract signed
- 14 Apr 2025
- Award ID
- 019292-2025-W10-10
- Status
- active
- Location
- Farnham, UK, United Kingdom
Classification
- CPV79620000 — Supply services of personnel including temporary staff
Lots
- Local Democracy Reporting Service 2025 Supplier Applications£32.5m