Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) - 2025 Supplier Applications

Published facts

What the notice says

Buyer

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Published status

complete

Latest release reference

eeda95a8-048d-45a1-949d-4997a9a653a1-843975

CPV codes

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes: 79620000

Published tags

award

Latest record Bidwake loaded from this source

27 Aug 2026

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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1. Tender notice observed

   2 Dec 2024

   Latest variant observed by Bidwake on 16 Jul 2026.

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   Record references

   Release reference

   f9be346e-3300-4a45-880b-7a24e7d114b1-807404

   Published tags

   tender

2. Award notice observed

   7 May 2025

   Latest variant observed by Bidwake on 16 Jul 2026.

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   Record references

   Release reference

   eeda95a8-048d-45a1-949d-4997a9a653a1-843975

   Published tags

   award

Awards and suppliers

Published award and contract facts

• Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) - 2025 Supplier Applications

  Buyer: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)Supplier: Baylis Community Media CiC

  End date in notice

  30 Jun 2030

  Value shown in notice

  £32,500,000Whole award value; not assigned to one supplier

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  About this figure

  • This award names more than one supplier but does not divide the published value between them. The figure is shown for context and is not assigned to one supplier.

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  Award or lot reference

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• Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) - 2025 Supplier Applications

  Buyer: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)Supplier:

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