Ofcom

The demand curve

Notices demanding it per 10,000 published, by year — rate-normalised so corpus growth never masquerades as demand. Complete years only.

The pale bars are 2025 onward. The Procurement Act went live on 24 February 2025 and changed how notices are written, so the step across that date is partly a change in convention and not only a change in demand. We have not measured how much of it is which, so please do not read this as a trend.

The receipts

Notices that demand it, and the sentence each demand was found in. Nothing is counted here without one.

• Recruitment Process Outsourcing 2026 to 2031mandatory

  Ofcom

  A hybrid service is required at Ofcom’s London office and Manchester office and a remote service for our other offices, with on-site visits when required, which will enable the supplier to deal with all aspects associated to the RPO delivery requirements, including (but not limited to) recruitment administration and lo…

• Replacement of wireless CCTV Infrastructuremandatory

  West Northamptonshire Council

  Work is required to be undertaken urgently by the incumbent CCTV Maintenance contractor under the current CCTV Maintenance contract, following an OFCOM investigation.

• Strategic Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) Special Missions Aircraft (Managed Service)mandatory

  Home Office

  Must meet all regulatory requirements (CAA, OFCOM, etc) and be capable of flying beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS);

• Commercial Minutage and Breaks Reportmandatory

  OFCOM

  Ofcom uses the AdvantEdge TV analysis tool and while the COSTA reports do not need to be extracted from this software, any data that is provided to Ofcom must be replicable.

• Replacement of Circuit Switch Data (CSD) Modems and related Telemetry Equipment (for use with Technolog Cello-MO Telemetry Systems)mandatory

  Wales & West Utilities

  Ofcom have approved BT Openreach to remove wholesale line rental (PSTN Copper lines) in the UK by 2025 upon which the current gas control system relies and as such an alternative solution is required.

• Replacement of PSTN Lines and related Telemetry Equipment (for use with Gas Controllers)mandatory

  Wales & West Utilities Ltd

  Ofcom have approved BT Openreach to remove wholesale line rental (PSTN Copper lines) in the UK by 2025 upon which the current gas control system relies and as such an alternative solution is required.

• Online Harms Digital Youth Work Pilot Programme

  Mayors Office For Policing And Crime

  Ofcom found that 99% of 13–17-year-olds see at least one benefit to being online, including help with schoolwork, learning new skills and maintaining social connections.

• T184 Support Services for Telecoms Association of UK Water Industry

  Northern Ireland Water

  Manage radio spectrum allocated by Ofcom for TAUWI members.

• Extending High Speed Broadband Framework Agreement

  Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government

  Ofcom has previously stated that a subset of these (around 10,000 premises) do not yet have access to at least 10Mbps.

• Warden Call Digital Upgrade and Maintenance

  London Borough of Hounslow

  Following approval of Ofcom and as part of Openreach's digital switchover programme from analogue to digital, Openreach in 2017 announced their planned replacement of all PTSN Analogue Lines by 2025 (in advance of this date, Openreach will be withdrawing such analogue equipment/packages at short notice).

• Consultancy support for Clear Hold Build

  London Borough of Enfield

  Consultancy support for Clear Hold Build covering following core areas: under-18 girls, prolific offenders, and OFCOM.

• Survey of age assurance circumvention by young people

  DSIT

  Following implementation, Ofcom reported that UK daily active users of virtual private

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