Official UK procurement notice
Bloomsbury Publishing Drama Online – Subscription Option
Authority: Jisc Services Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionJisc Services Limited has entered into a contract with Bloomsbury Publishing Plc to offer Jisc members the opportunity to subscribe to an award-winning digital library created in response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. It is the only resource to combine exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations, and audio plays. The service is for use by Jisc members and not for Jisc's own use.
CPV: Education and training services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 1 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Dec 2024, 10:16 GMT
- Last source update
- 28 Apr 2025, 17:06 BST
- Authority reference
Proc2794- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-017427- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04c639Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights
- Published justification
The supplier is the rightsholder to the IP of the content and the sole supplier of this unique resource. Therefore, Jisc is clear that the arrangement falls within the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights, contained within Regulation 32 (2) (b) (iii) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, permitting Jisc to enter into the direct award.
- Review procedure
Jisc Services Limited incorporated a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract was shared by means of a VEAT notice. This notification provided information on the award decision. The standstill period, which was for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provided time for suppliers to challenge the award decision before the contract was entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 article 91 provides for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court, London, WC2A 2LL (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
Publisher note: The scope of the framework covers purchases by public sector organisations, including but not limited to the following: • Higher Education institutions • Further Education institutions • Consortiums and any other Organisation or Body whose core purpose is the support or advancement of further or higher education or of research. • Any other education institute such as Schools or Colleges • Multi Academy Trusts and other such organisations established and acting on behalf Schools and Colleges • Specialist Colleges Research Council establishments • Charities and Third sector organisations • Local Authorities • Housing Associations • NHS bodies and bodies acting on behalf of the NHS • Emergency services and bodies acting on behalf of the NHS • Regional Broadband Consortia and any other the organisations connected to or eligible to connect to the Janet network. • JSL, Jisc, any Jisc subsidiaries and its members. • Any other wider public sector organisation. The framework is open to organisations in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, as well as members of NRENs outside the UK. Many of the above organisations are members of higher and further education purchasing consortia. These consortia are independent organisations that provide a wide range of collaborative purchase agreements to their member institutions. Any member of one of these consortia will be eligible to purchase from this framework by virtue of its membership, as will members of any other similar purchasing consortium in higher or further education that might be formed during the lifetime of the framework. The Framework is available for use by any National Research and Education Network (NREN) and the community it serves where the NREN has either a direct connection to Janet or the NREN is a member at any time during the period of this framework, or the consortium that operates GÉANT. GÉANT is the pan-European research and education network that interconnects Europe’s NRENs. A list of members of the GÉANT consortium (GÉANT Partners) may be found at the URL below. GÉANT may also use this framework. The framework is available for use by HEAnet, its subsidiaries, member institutions and customers to include schools serviced by the HEAnet school’s network. As HEAnet, the NREN of the Republic of Ireland, is connected both to Janet and is a member of the GÉANT consortium. Membership lists for existing higher and further education purchasing consortia may be found at: • https://www.lupc.ac.uk/member-list (https://www.lupc.ac.uk/member-list • https://www.supc.ac.uk/about-us/our-members/our-members (https://www.supc.ac.uk/about-us/our-members/our-members • http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members (http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members • http://www.neupc.ac.uk/members (http://www.neupc.ac.uk/members • http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/members/ (http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/members/ • http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members (http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members • https://www.heanet.ie/who-we-are https://about.geant.org/membership/members-associates-general-assembly-representatives/
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 2 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £303,562, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Contract 017427-2025-1-1
- Signed
- 14 Mar 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bloomsbury Publishing Drama Online – Subscription Option VEAT
- Signed
- 9 Dec 2024
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
2 commercial parties on the notice- BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLCFramework contractor
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Framework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.