BBC Online is meeting its obligation to commission 25 percent of eligible production work from external suppliers - but must make wide-ranging changes to the process, a review by its regulating BBC Trust has concluded (release, review)
The BBC has met the quota requirement every year since it was recommended by the 2004 Graf report. Last year, it commissioned external interactive producers for work totalling £20 million.
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But a Deloitte review in to the quota commissioned by the trust slates the system for lack of transparency, management, direction and value for money.
Consequently, the trust - whilst it is not raising the quota - has ordered BBC Online to “discuss with industry what form strategic goals for a quota system might take”, and to simplify the current process.
This BBC Trust review has been many months in the making - the BBC executive had already known the outcome and recommendations before Friday’s publication and has partly responded - it has already agreed to give the trust, after speaking with industry, a review within three months. The trust says the whole issue requires “urgent attention”.
Deloitte’s review (highlights):-
“The BBC is complying with the requirements set out in the BBC Agreement. However, the Online independent supply quota does not appear to be working well in practice. Whilst steps have recently been taken to remedy the issues surrounding it, both the BBC and the independent sector recognise there is a lack of: communication around how the commissioning for online takes place, clarity around how the quota is calculated and tracked; and, consistency and efficiency in commissioning practices. Most significantly, interviews demonstrate a strong belief in the independent sector that BBC online commissioners select suppliers to pitch for commissions based on the commissioners’ personal knowledge, rather than any rounded evaluation of who is equipped to deliver quality and value for money.
“There is a high degree of external scepticism as to whether reported performance is real or the result of an accounting allocation.
“Overall BBC Online expenditure is expected to go down rather than up
“There are issues with the management of the current arrangements that impact the value for money and quality BBC Online achieves for licence fee payers
“BBC Online has failed to provide sufficient transparency to the sector in terms of: strategic direction, emerging opportunities, decision making processes, and reporting of performance relative to the quota.
“An average commission size in FY 2009/10 of less than £5,000 and only 17 commissions over £100,000
“The revenues of the top 100 interactive agencies totalled c. £790m in 2009. In 2009/10 the BBC spent c. £20m externally as part of the BBC Online quota. Although the BBC will spend more on digital content (for example on those areas excluded from the eligible base), in absolute terms the impact that the BBC makes on the online content sector is limited.
“In this context, BBC Online’s c. £20m of ‘eligible’ annual spend lacks the scale to have as significant an impact on the shape of market as the BBC does in TV broadcasting.”
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Hoover is an economic god to you
And McCarthy was your hero
And Obama caused the recession
And doubling the DoD budget in recent years doesn't appear on your radar as you bemoan and whine about even the littlest of taxes.
And redirecting ANY money from wasteful programs to health reform, or instead washing it down the drain in a vast sea of DoD related spending and foreign wars is the death of us all.
And having the lowest taxes in the western world after we gave the wealthiest even more money (recent tax deal) to send overseas is just not good enough.
And you are smarter than Dr Reich and about 99% of economists who have concluded that hoover indeed was an economic dolt and ushered in the Great Depression and that FDR/WWII ended it.
You are naive to think the US will thrive in a laissez faire business model where taxes and gvmt regulation are a historic remnant. There's no historic precedent for your belief, and indeed, everytime we or anyone else have tried that, we have been predated on by the wealthy elite and suffered terrible economic shocks. And that includes the Great Depression, the Great Recession, and several shocks in the 19th century that few Americans have ever heard about except in vague terms of Robber Barons and the like.
Every time we lower taxes on the wealthy, almost half that money disappears into overseas investments or tax shelters. That's the giant sucking sound you hear, and msoja mistakenly believed was ACA.
I'm all for low taxes, but not for gutting them mindlessly. Clinton era high end tax rates were reasonable and helped balance the budget, and anything lower IMO is destructive to our economy and std of living.
I'm all for for smart elimination of regulation, but not for mindless gutting them.
As a 12 year USAF vet, I'm all for strong defense, but not the current wars and not the doubling of the DoD budget as BushJr did.
Evaluating whether a program has a NET negative or positive effect on the economy involves a fair assessment of all variables, something freeloaders like you aren't capable of doing. Some of the variables you enumerate would indeed be problems, except that you forgot to mention the variables in the package that outweigh your negatives. For example, ensuring that 32 million people have affordable care and won't go bankrupt or die are positive factors that HELP the economy and outweigh your variables.
And your blatant hatred of the CBO process also shows you are a wingnut whose opinions are distorted by ideology.
You fail to cite that GOP predictions are even worse than CBO predictions, and that the main reason CBO predictions are often wrong is that the underlying assumptions of those predictions change as a result of partisan actions by later Congresses and admins.
I am no longer a Republican because I came to learn that they engage in the biggest lies of all. You are the kind of propagandist that caused me to abandon that party--the party of debt, fear and big lies
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