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ClosedStage · contract

Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC)

Serials, Periodicals, and Associated Services (Print and Digital)

Print & PublishingCPV 22200000
Value£300.0m
Deadline30 May 2023
Published13 Apr 2023
RegionUK-wide
Timeline
Published 13 Apr 2023ClosedCloses 30 May 2023
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£300.0mtotal contract value
median £92k
this tender£0£324.0m

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The brief

The current 'Serials, Periodicals and Associated Services' agreement is led by SUPC and supported by HEPCW, LUPC, NEUPC, and NWUPC along with the four specialist library consortia Academic Libraries North, MUAL, NEYAL, and WHELF.

The agreement ran for an initial 2 year period and has had two 12 month extensions, totally four years.

It expires on 30th April 2023 and is likely to be extended until 31st July 2023.

The agreement scope remains similar to the current agreement and will cover the supply of serials by subscriptions agents in print and/or electronic formats.

This includes current, backissue, backsets and digital archives of periodicals; newspapers and annuals (annual conference proceedings, reports, yearbooks, etc); the journals, memoirs, proceedings, transactions and other similar publications of societies; numbered monographic series; standing orders; standards and databases.

Also included are associated services relating to consolidation or usage analysis.

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The agreement scope remains similar to

The agreement scope remains similar to the current agreement and will cover the supply of serials by subscriptions agents in print and/or electronic formats.

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Source & provenance
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