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BuyerThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published2 Oct 2024

What is being bought

The BBC has Awarded the Contract to mPArticle for the service of a Customer Data Platform (CDP), the Supplier will be responsible for data management, campaign management and activation. This Contract shall come into effect on the "Effective Date", (for a 1-year Transition/Integration period, named "Year 0") and shall continue in force for a period of three (3) years from the Service Commencement Date (the "Initial Term") and unless terminated earlier in accordance with its terms. The Contract may be extended for a further period of 36 months hence (1+1+1). The spend range over the 7 (1+3+3) year term is between £4.5 million - £8 million. The spend ranges are not committed spend ranges, and are therefore "only an estimation" of spend that could be made through the Agreement.

Delivery location

UK

Categories

Software integration consultancy services 72227000Data management services 72322000

Lot details

Lot 1

The BBC has Awarded the Contract to mPArticle for the service of a Customer Data Platform (CDP), the Supplier will be responsible for data management, campaign management and activation. This Contract shall come into effect on the "Effective Date", (for a 1-year Transition/Integration period, named "Year 0") and shall continue in force for a period of three (3) years from the Service Commencement Date (the "Initial Term") and unless terminated earlier in accordance with its terms. The Contract may be extended for a further period of 36 months hence (1+1+1). The spend range over the 7 (1+3+3) year term is between £4.5 million - £8 million. The spend ranges are not committed spend ranges, and are therefore "only an estimation" of spend that could be made through the Agreement.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 45%
Price — 55%

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Software integration consultancy servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is Software integration consultancy services (72227000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 7210,5392 median · 15.4 average (4,161 of 10,539 with a bid count)2 average (5,053 of 10,539 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer269 median · 52.1 average (14 of 26 with a bid count)3.6 average (14 of 26 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UK3,3232 median · 33.9 average (1,171 of 3,323 with a bid count)2.8 average (1,501 of 3,323 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

Customer Data Platform

Statusactive
Value£8,000,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-044b70
Latest release ID031517-2024
Latest release timestampWed Oct 02 2024 10:57:37 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
2 Oct 2024award, contract031517-2024
21 Mar 2024tender009274-2024

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
2 Oct 2024 · 031517-2024 · award, contract
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21 Mar 2024 · 009274-2024 · tender
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