Local Democracy Reporting Service - 2025 Supplier Applications

Published facts

What the notice says

Buyer

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Published status

complete

Latest release reference

019292-2025

CPV codes

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes: 79620000

Published tags

award, contract

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 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.

Open the official Find a Tender notice

Observed notice trail

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1. Award notice observed

   7 May 2025

   Latest variant observed by Bidwake on 16 Jul 2026.

   Open this official Find a Tender notice

   Record references

   Release reference

   019292-2025

   Published tags

   award, contract

Awards and suppliers

Published award and contract facts

• Local Democracry Reporting Service 2025 Supplier Applications

  Buyer: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)Supplier: Reach Shared Services Ltd

  End date in notice

  Date not published

  Value shown in notice

  £1Value from the linked contract

  Official source

  Open the official Find a Tender notice for Local Democracry Reporting Service 2025 Supplier Applications

  About this figure

  • This figure comes from the linked contract record. Overall totals continue to use the separately published award value.

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  Source

  Find a Tender

  Award or lot reference

  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

• Local Democracy Reporting Service - 2025 Supplier Applications

  Buyer: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)Supplier: Newsquest Media Group Ltd

Related evidence

Published terms and linked processes

• Options are statedLot 1 to 118

  The initial contract term will run for a period of 30 months. Contracts may be extended for up to an additional 30 months to 30th June 2030.

  Published 7 May 2025.Open supporting notice 019292-2025

No exact source-published process relationship was found.