BBC Sports Managed Service

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Estimated value

Awarded value

£19.6m

Awarded 14 Nov 2025

Suppliers

1

1 SME

Lots

1

1 awarded

Published

14 Nov 2025

Description

BBC Sport have a need for a service partner to manage technical crews for the delivery of Gallery Operations, Editing, Ingest, Quality Control and Media Management. This is essentially a staff only operation with the necessary facilities being provided by the BBC or other managed service providers for edit systems. BBC Sport has a need to reprocure as the current expires on 31/03/26. The service includes staffing the 3rd floor of Quay House Media Citysport production, Multimedia 1 and 2 galleries, sub mix 1,2 and 3 areas, off tube 1 and 2. There are 12 craft edits in Quay House plus 23 desk edits which need crewing with appropriately experienced staff and supported by media management and ingest teams to ensure material is booked in, scheduled for ingest and media managed and archived appropriately maximising reuse and minimising storage. Traditionally the supply of all staff is a blend of service partners core staff and freelancers.

Scope

Reference
PROC/2025/96/SW
Commercial tool
Standalone contract
Contract dates
31 Mar 2026 to 31 Mar 2029
Possible extension to 31 Mar 2031

initial term is 3 years with optional extension period of up to 2 years

CPV classifications
92110000
Contract locations
UK, United Kingdom

Award criteria

Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.

NameDescriptionTypeWeighting
Qualityquality50.00%
Costcost50.00%

Participation

Conditions suppliers must meet to bid.

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Submission & procedure

Procedure
Competitive flexible procedure

Award details

Awarded supplier(s), contract period and value as published in the award notice.

Awarded value

£19.6m

Award date

14 Nov 2025

Contract start

31 Mar 2026

Contract end

31 Mar 2029

Awarded to