Published date: 4 December 2024

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 17 October 2024, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Market research services - 79310000

  • Business and management consultancy and related services - 79400000

  • Business and management consultancy services - 79410000

    • Business development consultancy services - 79411100

Location of contract

W1T 1LN

Value of contract

£0 to £60,000

Procurement reference

IT-190-405-2024/403 - AWARD

Published date

4 December 2024

Closing date

17 October 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

21 November 2024

Contract end date

30 April 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Some major English-speaking territories (e.g., Australia, Canada, New Zealand) and many European countries (e.g. Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain) have brought in, are introducing or are considering regulation of online audiovisual services, mainly Video on Demand (VOD) but sometimes also Video Sharing Platforms (VSPs), with the aim to support their national screen industries, especially independent sectors. The measures include investment obligations, levies, rules around rights retention as well as quotas. Within the European Union and the European Economic Area, such interventions are governed by the Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD). Ahead of the ex-post evaluation of the AVMSD due from the European Commission by December 2026, there is already debate around the current set of interventions that are allowed by the AVMSD and some EU stakeholders will be pushing for revisions to the AVMSD interventions (these might include, e.g. investment obligations, levies, quotas and rights retention as well as whether these parts of the Directive should be extended to VSPs).

There are some research reports providing either an overarching view of policy options and drivers in this sphere (such as Film i Väst reports) or a limited release of early data (as in the case of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image Animée (CNC)), but there is no comprehensive analysis of either the rationale for these measures or their initial impacts on the health of the wider screen ecosystem in the respective territories.

The principal focus of this research is the impact of regulation of online services, including VOD (both Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD) and Ad-supported Video on Demand (AVOD) platforms), and video sharing platforms such as YouTube and TikTok where relevant.

For each country studied, we want to understand the impacts on the audiovisual ecosystem as a whole, and local independent film and TV production in particular (as strengthening the latter is often the objective of such interventions), audiences and cultural diversity. The study should also include a counterfactual which considers these impacts in a territory (outside the UK) in which such measures have not been introduced.

Award information

Awarded date

4 December 2024

Contract start date

21 November 2024

Contract end date

30 April 2025

Total value of contract

£60,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

DotEcon

Address

17 Welbeck Street, London, United Kingdom, W1G 9XJ

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Graham Bellas

Address

21 Stephen Street
London
London
W1T 1LN
United Kingdom

Telephone

0207 173 3299

Email

graham.bellas@bfi.org.uk