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SOMERSET COUNTY COUNCIL

Contract for the Provision of Books and Book Processing Services to Support School Library Services

Print & PublishingCPV 22000000
Value£350k
Awarded8 Dec 2016
Published9 Mar 2017
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£350ktotal contract value
median £92k
this tender£0£2.4m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Printed Matter & Publishing band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 2,467 valued Printed Matter & Publishing tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Council tendered for the provision of books and book processing services to support the school's library services.

Schools accessing the Subscription packages are eligible for use of this Service.

The Service is predominantly used by primary schools in Somerset.

The Supplier selected from this Tender process will be required to provide the Council with its desired catalogue of books for purchase; these books are Serviced by the Supplier prior to delivery.

Schools and libraries will additionally be able to purchase items directly from the Supplier when required.

The Supplier will additionally make available to opportunity to the Council to purchase books on a sale or return basis for Events such as the reading conference.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Council tendered for the provision

The Council tendered for the provision of books and book processing services to support the school's library services.

02

The Supplier selected from this Tender process

The Supplier selected from this Tender process will be required to provide the Council with its desired catalogue of books for purchase; these books are Serviced by the Supplier prior to delivery.

03

Schools and libraries will additionally be able

Schools and libraries will additionally be able to purchase items directly from the Supplier when required.

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Source & provenance
OCID
5bebeda7-9c45-4f3a-b426-a1e8f6b29735
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
SOMRTD001-DN214854-45106759
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