# Interactive Services Model

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Ofcom](/buyers/ofcom/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: [PUBLIC GROUP INTERNATIONAL LIMITED](/contract-winners/public-group-international/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £134,908
- Tender value: £134,908
- Award date: 23 September 2022
- Published: 20 February 2023
- Contract start: 4 October 2022
- Contract end: 31 March 2023
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: c81b1985-0fc3-42dc-b026-698f35a12499-616506
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-29b415ab-dac4-42ff-b02b-0f2c1c11e0bc

## Description

Given a growing interest by industry and consumers alike for online games, the metaverse, and immersive experiences Ofcom will undertake a project to map the journey of users, platform workflows, and architectures of current interactive services\. This work will focus on interactive services where user-to-user interaction is sufficient to result in a risk for harm, primarily related to online gaming services that present vectors for harm, for example capabilities relating to user-to-user interaction, channels for communication, user generation of content and spaces, or where interaction and/or immersion constitutes implications for further harm\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c81b1985-0fc3-42dc-b026-698f35a12499-616506)