- Type
- award, contract
- Procedure
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Ref. number
- 051907-2026
The BBC currently relies on IMI Social to capture, route, and curate audience contributions from SMS, social media, and WhatsApp, integrating them into BBC production workflows. This enables various on-air applications, …
such as reading SMS messages on the radio, playing WhatsApp voice notes, and rendering audience data for on-screen graphics. The platform processes millions of messages each month across radio, podcasts, news, and TV.
Audience contributions via social media and SMS are a vital editorial component of
live radio and TV programmes, often shaping content in real-time. Approximately 4,000 BBC users rely on the system to receive, moderate, and publish around four million messages per month.
To ensure continuity, the BBC is procuring a new w