Contracts Finder notice
National and regional media monitoring
Authority: OFFICE FOR STANDARDS IN EDUCATION, CHILDRENS SERVICES AND SKILLS
CPV: Software package and information systems (48000000)
Published contract value£147,571Exc. VAT
Contract ends 9 Oct 2027
Awarded to Carma International Ltd
Contract starts 10 Oct 2025
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis Contract is for the provision of a media monitoring service, which is needed by the External Communications team to ensure they can monitor where Ofsted is being discussed and / or represented in the national, regional and trade press media.
The procurement was run via the CCS Research & Insights Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)
The Research & Insights DPS is for all media monitoring and related services. There are currently 467 suppliers on the DPS, and selection was made by completing several filters to provide a shortlist of suppliers who were then invited to a further competition process.
Published procurement details
- Dynamic purchasing system cited in notice
- Research & Insights · RM6126
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- CON 1511
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Published tender value
- £116,143.00
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- England, United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision28 Aug 2025
- Notice published9 Oct 2025
- Contract starts10 Oct 2025
- Contract ends9 Oct 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- OFFICE FOR STANDARDS IN EDUCATION, CHILDRENS SERVICES AND SKILLSContracting authority
- Identifier
- D106 · GB-GOR
Suppliers named on the notice
- Carma International LtdSupplier
- Identifier
- 03885026 · GB-COH
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- Large
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-99b454e7-5467-4973-b764-e5cb78bd8aae-2025-10-09T14:26:07+01:00
- Published
- 9 Oct 2025
- Latest update
- 9 Oct 2025
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-99b454e7-5467-4973-b764-e5cb78bd8aae
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-99b454e7-5467-4973-b764-e5cb78bd8aae-1