PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

The Provision of NLA Media Database License

Cabinet Office · published 8 May 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID4b69ec26-4a23-4463-9b76-7f805df46c0b-896391
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-f7603c0d-1b3c-48c0-b51e-918e9c9119ca
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/3A4AmUm4
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£19,176
award field
Tender value
£19,176
tender field
Procurement method
Single tender action (below threshold)
Category
services
CPV
79980000
Subscription services
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

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.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release8 May 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published17 Mar 2026
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2027
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 8 May 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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