Published date: 10 January 2024

Withdrawn opportunity - This means that the contract has been withdrawn early. This could be due to a change of circumstances.


Closing: 29 November 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Application service providers - 72416000

Location of contract

SW1H 0EU

Value of contract

£12,238

Procurement reference

CF-2098100D0O000000rwimUAA

Published date

10 January 2024

Closing date

29 November 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

30 November 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Single tender action (below threshold)

A direct contract with a single supplier, without competition.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The primary purpose of the contract is to allow the Department to consider social media posts made by candidates to be appointed to public appointments. The expectation of the Commissioner for Public Appointments is that Departments carry out due diligence on candidates to ensure they will meet the required standards in holding public office. Checks of publicly available social media (X/Twitter posts) is standard procedure. X/Twitter have recently introduced a charging policy to allow users to review volumes of Tweets/posts. The fee is paid monthly and there is no contractual commitment beyond each paid for month's service.

Standard Terms and Conditions provided by the Supplier are used for this service.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

Twitter/X Ministerial Intelligence Tool

  • Awarded contract
  • Published 9 January 2024

About the buyer

Contact name

Luca Chard

Address

39 Victoria St
London
SW1H 0EU
United Kingdom

Email

luca.chard@dhsc.gov.uk