Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Mayor's Office for Police and Crime · Mayors Office for Policing & Crime
- Supplier
- M & C Saatchi World Services SME
- Value
- £73,925
- Procedure
- Open procedure (below threshold)
- Sector
- Research & development · Research and development services and related consultancy services (CPV 73000000)
- Region
- London
- Official notice
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- Timeline
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- Contract date27 Nov 2024
- Published19 Mar 2025Published 112 days after the contract date
Description
The London Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) are looking for a research partner to investigate the relationship between social media and offline physical violence affecting children & young people in London. The VRU recognises that social media is ubiquitous in young people's lives. Young Londoners are often exposed to violent and harmful content which may increase the risk of physical violence or criminal exploitation. Additionally, social media content has been increasingly utilised in the criminal justice system to argue a causal link between online behaviour and instances of offline violence; however, the specific links between online content and real-world physical violence are not well understood. Given the scale of social media, the VRU is particularly interested in understanding the impact of specific types of online content: - Violent content - defined as content that encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an act of serious violence against a person; depicts real or re…
About the supplier
M & C Saatchi World Services: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company OC364842).