Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Supplier
- Carma International Ltd
- Value
- £147,571.20
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Software package and information systems (CPV 48000000)
- Region
- North West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Aug 2025
- Published9 Oct 2025Published 42 days after the contract date
Description
This 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.
About the supplier
Carma International Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 03885026).