Tender Results of Ofcom

Future Business Support Service - Pre-Discovery Phase Report (Online Safety)-Ofcom had a requirement for a pre-discovery phase report to support the in-house design and build of an end-to-end digital business support service for unsupervised businesses - a user base that Ofcom is in the process of researching and identifying. This public service will be developed in phases using the Service Standard created by the Government Digital Service and owned by the Central Digital and Data Office. This phased delivery approach will also promote fact-finding, design and experimen...

Economics Training for Ofcom Colleagues-Ofcom's Economics and Analytics Group is looking for potential competition economics training options, aimed at junior colleagues but also acting as a refresher for those with more experience. The topics we are most interested in are: Analysing markets and market definition Market power and remedies Economics of competition law Impact assessments / CBA Ex post evaluation Cost concepts and LRIC modelling

Analysis of Online Terrorist Content in the UK-Research to provide an overview of the extent and nature of terrorist content across platforms. It will track terrorist content across platforms and determine the most acute threats to UK consumers of this kind of content.

Understanding and examining the UK production sector-Ofcom has a requirement for understanding and examining the UK production sector.While there is substantial information that provides Ofcom with a reasonably sound level of understanding of the sector's size and the levels of investment that go into it. It does not provide what we consider to be a complete picture of the UK production sector - particularly in respect to the 'longer tail' of smaller independent production companies and companies that may specialise in short form an...

Phone booths and personal workspace acoustic chairs-Ofcom has a requirement for 21 phone booths and 5 personal workspace acoustic chairs initially. The Supplier must be capable of delivering and installing all items by 31 March 2023. Items are being procured via a call-off procedure under CCS framework agreement RM6119.

Assessing the impact of the Online Safety regime on users ability to express themselves freely online and user privacy online-Ofcom is the regulator for video-sharing platforms established in the UK. Ofcom is preparing for new responsibilities to regulate a broader range of services under the proposed online safety regime. As part of its activities under the new regime, Ofcom will seek to assess the impact of its policies and mitigate potential unintended consequences. Where the regime has the potential to impact users' ability to express themselves freely online and users' privacy online, we want to be ab...

Distributed Web Platforms and Online Safety-The Distributed Web (dWeb) is a growing set of protocols, that services are built on. It removes single siloed companies from managing and controlling services. These platforms can be considered higher risk due to challenges in ownership and content moderation and ergo delivering safer outcomes for people. The work will produce a report on the distributed markets (with reference to Ofcom's remit, in the forthcoming Online Safety Bill). It will provide an overview of these services, how t...

Foreign interference via search services-Ofcom requires research into foreign interference via search services and search engines. We are seeking to collect evidence on the prevalence of foreign interference activities via search services or engines and how search services or engines currently conceive of, monitor, and respond to foreign interference; how effective current mitigations are; what other mitigations are possible, and how effective these could be.

Standalone meeting furniture-We are seeking a quote for a small number of fully enclosed meeting pods. Our intention is to contract via YPO framework agreement 1074.

C20221428 - Vulnerable consumers and future TV interfaces-Ofcom is currently undertaking a programme of work exploring the future of television distribution and viewing, given an environment where viewing is increasingly moving away from traditional broadcast platforms and towards a combination of on demand and IP-delivered platforms and services. This change of viewing is impacting different viewers at different rates, depending on their viewing habits and levels of confidence with technology. There is a risk that some viewers are left behind as servi...