Internet: Disinformation

(asked on 19th April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, if she will publish the full Statement of Requirements for which her department tendered a contract on 31st March under procurement reference 102915, regarding the monitoring and analysis of potentially harmful misinformation and disinformation online.


Answered by
Chris Philp Portrait
Chris Philp
Minister of State (Home Office)
This question was answered on 27th April 2022

The contract opportunity is a re-tender of an existing contract for misinformation and disinformation monitoring and analysis services to support the Counter Disinformation Unit to provide a comprehensive picture of the scope, scale, and reach of misinformation and disinformation.

The contract has been published in accordance with relevant transparency requirements pursuant to the Public Contracts Regulations (2015) and is currently live. Given the sensitive nature of the contract opportunity relates in part to national security, a statement of requirement is only available upon signing a non-disclosure agreement.

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