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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

Cabinet Office

The Provision of NLA Media Database License

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79900000
Value£19k
Awarded17 Mar 2026
Published8 May 2026
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£19ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits below the typical range for Business Services contracts — a smaller, more accessible award. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The MMU team requires early access (pre-publication date) to UK daily national newspaper content which should be made available via an online platform which has the functionalist to search for stories by keyword, date, publication and edition.

The team requires access to content from the first editions of the UK national daily newspapers no later than 11pm on the day prior to publication.

The team requires that the digital versions of the hard copies of the newspaper be viewable online and also downloadable with text of the digital versions identical to their print counterpart.

Early editions of the following publications to be available on the platform as a minimum - The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, The Sun, Daily Star, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Express, The Mail on Sunday, The Sun on Sunday, The Star on Sunday, The Independent, The i, City AM, Metro, Evening Standard.

The MMU requires the supplier to have the requisite licences to hold this material on their online platforms.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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The MMU team requires early access (pre-publication

The MMU team requires early access (pre-publication date) to UK daily national newspaper content which should be made available via an online platform which has the functionalist to search for stories by keyword, date, publication and edition.

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Source & provenance
OCID
4b69ec26-4a23-4463-9b76-7f805df46c0b
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
C5520
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