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Exploring Adults' Engagement with Suicide, Self-Harm, and Eating Disorder Online Content

OFCOM

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Key details

Contracting authority
OFCOM
other
Region
London
Contract value
£60,126ex VAT
Submissions closed
10 July 2025
Published
11 September 2025

Procurement

Contract period
2 September 2025 - 1 April 2026
7 months
Procedure type
Other - Mini Competition via Ofcom Market Research Framework Agreement
CPV classifications
  • 79310000 Market research services

What happened

OFCOM awarded this contract to MEL Research Ltd worth £60,126 on 15 Aug 2025. The contract runs until 1 Apr 2026.

Description

The research aims to understand how UK adults engage with online content related to suicide, self-harm, and eating disorders, including how such content is encountered, its perceived impact, and how experiences vary across different groups. It also seeks to explore the role of support tools - particularly the role of features that help users to avoid and take other action in relation to legal content - and wider interventions to better protect and empower users in relation to S/SH/ED content.

Awarded supplier

Supplier
Award value
£60,126
Award date
15 August 2025

Contact

Address
Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9HA

Identifiers

Buyer reference
tender_496788/1515110
Notice ID
2ddcc743-08ee-4dfb-8069-f362362671dc-863160
OCID
ocds-b5fd17-9f73f6a6-980c-4dce-af90-4602f359f418

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