Official UK procurement notice
Cold Spring Harbor Transitional Read and Publish 2025-2026
Authority: Jisc Services Limited (Public body)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionJisc Services Limited has entered into a contract with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press journals, offering read access to three reviews and four research titles, as well as unlimited open access publishing for research and review articles, for a fixed price. This contract is for use by Jisc members only and not forJisc'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
- 1 Oct 2024, 16:04 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Nov 2024, 15:37 GMT
- Authority reference
Proc2704- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-038644- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04a4c7Find 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 about the contract was shared by means of a VEAT notice. The VEAT notification provided information on the award decision. The standstill period, thereafter, which was for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provided timefor suppliers to challenge the award decision before the contract was entered into. ThePublic Contracts Regulations 2015 article 91 provides for aggrieved parties who have beenharmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court(England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
Publisher note: The scope of the Framework covers purchases by Higher Education institutions, Further Education and Specialist Colleges and Research Council establishments in the UK, and by any other organisations connected to the Janet network, including Local Authorities, Regional Broadband Consortia, or other bodies whose core purpose is the support or advancement of further or higher education or of research. The services are also 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 of 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. As HEAnet, the NREN of the Republic of Ireland, is connected both to Janet and is a member of the GÉANT consortium, the framework is available for use by HEAnet, its subsidiaries, member institutions and customers to include schools serviced by the HEAnet school’s network. 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. Membership lists for existing higher and further education purchasing consortia may be found at: https://www.lupc.ac.uk/member-list https://www.supc.ac.uk/about-us/our-members/our-members http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members http://www.neupc.ac.uk/our-members http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/members/ http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members http://www.geant.net/About/Pages/home.aspx https://www.heanet.ie/about
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Buyer details updated29 Nov 2024, 15:37 GMT
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, £358,490, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Cold Spring Harbor Transitional Read and Publish 2025-2026
- Signed
- 18 Nov 2024
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Cold Spring Harbor Transitional Read and Publish 2025-2026
- Signed
- 27 Sept 2024
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- JiscReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
2 commercial parties on the notice- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory PressFramework contractor
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory PressFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.