Historical commissioner and acceptance authority

UK Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport — historical buyer

The former Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport appears here as the historical public buyer behind CDDP business planning, supplier orders and evaluation arrangements. Its dated contracting role is distinct from the later DSIT role.

Purchasing and approval mechanisms

The retained record includes an October 2021 CDDP business case, Faculty variation documents, and a NewsWhip monitoring-tool contract for 28 October 2022–27 October 2023. An evaluation order attributed to Oliver Wyman lists £656,000 excluding VAT across two phases as a tender or contract price. Payment terms require satisfactory deliverables, while key subcontractor identities in order 102548 are redacted. Accepted outputs, approved invoices and a blanket transfer of all these contracts to DSIT were not established.

What the records show

UK Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport — historical buyerOliver Wyman — inventory-identified CDDP evaluator

is identified as commissioning evaluation through102384

Department inventory identifiesOliverWyman; order supplier fields redacted. VisiblePhaseI108400+PhaseII547600=656000GBPexVAT; tenderprice/firstyearliabilitybasis, not paid funds. Released copy does not establish signatures/execution. Financial details: value: 656,000; currency: GBP; kind: disclosed fixed tender/contract price excluding VAT; not payment; period: 102384 phasesI/II Payment status: No payment record acquired

UK Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport — historical buyerNewsWhip Media Limited

disclosed contract identifies monitoring-tool supplier

Contract stated28October2022-27October2023;optionalextensionnotverified

PDF143 names NewsWhip Media Limited, Irish registration485016, in contract103186 for real-time social/predictive news intelligence,28October2022-27October2023, with an optional one-year buyer extension. No charge, payment, exercised extension or actual CDDP feed/deployment was established.

UK Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport — historical buyerCounter-Disinformation Data Platform

business case proposes cross-government data-sharing capacity

October2021 businesscase

October2021 PDF1-2 SharedOutcomesFundcase,SROSarahConnolly,Discovery/Deliveryphases,misinformation/disinformation/manipulativebehaviour. Namedplan,not validatedperformance. Participatingdepartments/valuefields unreadable/redacted,notreconstructed.

UK Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport — historical buyerFaculty102887 variation trail — unreconciled totals

named buyer in separate102887 variation trail

PDF135/137 separate from102548. No1dated13December2022statesMVPcompleted30September2022;that contractstatementisnotanindependentacceptanceaudit. No2dated1March2023effective16January.

UK Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport — historical buyerPA Consulting

appointed PA as external OSDI evaluator

2021-09-23

23September2021deliverylead account describes assurance of process/resources/spending/quality andseniorcivilservantreporting. No originalscopeagreement/finalassessment acquired.

UK Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport — historical buyer102548 key-subcontractor approval field — redacted

provides written approval through the order-form mechanism

102548PDF120 says entry grants approval for listedkeysubcontractors; identities redacted. Separate102887NotApplicable field does not resolve this list. No PUBLICsubcontractedge.

UK Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport — historical buyerCDDP evaluation contract102384 — released copy

conditions payment in arrears on satisfactory deliverables

Released payment/acceptance terms locate buyer review; no accepted deliverable, invoice approval or payment acquired. Date mismatch and empty signaturefields preserved.

Further reading

CDDP evaluation, acceptance and continuation of funding

OSDI evaluation output: bounded public-source pass

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What the connections say

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UK Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport — historical buyerbusiness case proposes cross-government data-sharing capacityCounter-Disinformation Data Platform

October2021 businesscase

October2021 PDF1-2 SharedOutcomesFundcase,SROSarahConnolly,Discovery/Deliveryphases,misinformation/disinformation/manipulativebehaviour. Namedplan,not validatedperformance. Participatingdepartments/valuefields unreadable/redacted,notreconstructed.

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UK Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport — historical buyerdisclosed contract identifies monitoring-tool supplierNewsWhip Media Limited

Contract stated28October2022-27October2023;optionalextensionnotverified

PDF143 names NewsWhip Media Limited, Irish registration485016, in contract103186 for real-time social/predictive news intelligence,28October2022-27October2023, with an optional one-year buyer extension. No charge, payment, exercised extension or actual CDDP feed/deployment was established.

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UK Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport — historical buyeris identified as commissioning evaluation through102384Oliver Wyman — inventory-identified CDDP evaluator

Department inventory identifiesOliverWyman; order supplier fields redacted. VisiblePhaseI108400+PhaseII547600=656000GBPexVAT; tenderprice/firstyearliabilitybasis, not paid funds. Released copy does not establish signatures/execution.

Financial details: value: 656,000; currency: GBP; kind: disclosed fixed tender/contract price excluding VAT; not payment; period: 102384 phasesI/II

Payment status: No payment record acquired

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