RFP QuestBeta
Awarded · ResultStage · contract

OFFICE FOR STANDARDS IN EDUCATION, CHILDRENS SERVICES AND SKILLS

National and regional media monitoring

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48000000
Value£148k
Awarded16 May 2025
Published9 Oct 2025
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£148ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Software & IT Systems band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

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.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This Contract is for the provision

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.

02

There are currently 467 suppliers on

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.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

2 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
Insights Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)
Ofsted registrationRegulator registrations
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.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

Buyer intelligence

Make the case to bid

Reveal who to approach at OFFICE FOR STANDARDS IN EDUCATION, CHILDRENS SERVICES AND SKILLS, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.

Sign up free to unlock buyer intelligence

Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.

Source & provenance
OCID
b2b060c8-7926-46f9-9777-8ce207b5b3a4
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
CON 1511
View the original notice on Contracts Finder

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

Market context

Who wins this kind of work

The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.

Top suppliers & buyers in Software & IT Systems

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.

OFFICE FOR STANDARDS IN EDUCATION, CHILDRENS SERVICES AND SKILLS’s tender network

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.
Also open now

Similar open tenders

Continuous Water Quality Monitoring (CWQM)

United Utilities Water Limited

Closes 29 Jan 2027Communications Equipment
£127.2mValue