With the BBC’s £150m Digital Curriculum due to start rolling out in January 2006 a roster of preferred/direct suppliers was published last December. Suppliers both individual and consortia had to apply for inclusion via a tendering process designed to meet the EU Public Procurement Directive.

Hopefully, the work produced by these companies will be better than that what can be seen on some of their websites - the Tavistock Alliance member e-Communications site is so up to date their latest news article is from 2002!

• www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/dcp

• www.e-communications.co.uk