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# Untold Stories children and young people

Buyer: OFCOM  
Current stage: Tender  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-cc96e9f4-742f-46c2-80ad-f68478b98cc8

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## Summary

OFCOM has initiated a tender for the "Untold Stories children and young people" project, focusing on enhancing media literacy to help young individuals understand and avoid misinformation. This procurement, categorised under "Training programme services", is available for SMEs and VCSEs across various regions including the UK, British Oversea Territories, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Europe, and other international locations. The procurement stage is currently in the Tender phase with key deadlines such as the tender period ending on 6th January 2025 and the contract period running from 21st January 2025 to 20th January 2027. The project holds a budget range between £120,000 and £150,000.

This tender offers substantial opportunities for businesses experienced in developing and delivering media and news literacy programmes, especially those aiming to enhance critical thinking skills among children and young people. The successful tenderer will have the chance to adapt or create a programme that not only educates youth on identifying mis/disinformation but also involves producing their own local news reports, thereby promoting local journalism. Businesses with a background in educational services, media consultancy, and community engagement would be particularly well-suited to compete and potentially benefit from the societal contributions and reputational gains that this project aims to achieve.

## Notice

Under the Online Safety Act, Ofcom has media literacy duties including a responsibility to commission activities that support women and girls, help people spot and avoid misinformation, and understand how platforms use our personal data. This ITT sets out our requirements to help people spot and avoid mis and disinformation through understanding how stories become news. This will build their media literacy knowledge, skills and behaviour and their engagement with news. Media literacy has a role to play in supporting people to possess the critical thinking skills to better spot mis and disinformation and identify news and information they can trust. literacy, sometimes known as news literacy, teaches audiences how to judge the reliability and credibility of news and information, and distinguish professionally produced news from other forms of content. Our research showing that 44% of people agreed with the statement "the more a story is edited, the less it is likely to be true" suggests that enhancing understanding of how stories become news could better equip people to make more informed judgements about mis and disinformation. At the same time, local media has a vital role to play in the social fabric of the UK. Local media, and particularly the local public interest news it produces, can help to deliver important benefits to society by supporting local democracy and holding councils and other local institutions to account. Local media is also an important way for many communities to stay informed about local information and events, which in turn can help to promote social cohesion and community engagement. It can give a voice to people from a variety of backgrounds and beliefs, reflect an entire community back to itself and promote greater mutual understanding. It also has the potential to stimulate local economies by promoting local businesses and events that bring people into an area. As a result, effective local media provision has previously been described as an important element of the glue that can help build and bind communities together. Research also points to the commitment of local journalists to create a sense of community and to defend it, suggesting that engagement with local media could be part of the solution to countering wider hatred, disinformation and polarisation. We require a tenderer who can deliver a programme that improves children and young people's media literacy skills, specifically that they are better able to identify mis and disinformation and that they have a better understanding of how news is produced, ideally through having produced their own local news reports. It is likely that your organisation has already developed a media/news literacy programme, although it may require some adaptation to meet the requirements of this tender.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/69863226-4620-466d-bab1-775ff3e5d807 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Other - Under threshold ITT |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Tender |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 29 Nov 2024 |
| Submission deadline | 6 Jan 2025 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 21 Jan 2025 - 20 Jan 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £150,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Active |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | OFCOM |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South East London |
| Postcode | SE1 9HA |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI44 Lewisham and Southwark |
| Local authority | Southwark |
| Electoral ward | Borough & Bankside |
| Westminster constituency | Bermondsey and Old Southwark |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 80 - Education and training services

### Codes

- 80521000 - Training programme services

## Release History

- 29 Nov 2024 at 13:20 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/69863226-4620-466d-bab1-775ff3e5d807

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/69863226-4620-466d-bab1-775ff3e5d807
  29th November 2024 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder

## Notice URLs

- https://ofcom.bravosolution.co.uk

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