AwardedFind a Tender · award

Patents and Other IP Rights Renewal Platform

BuyerUNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX(THE)

StatusAwarded

DeadlineNot published

ValueValue not published

Published23 Sept 2025

What is being bought

Contract for an IP renewal provider which will offer a web platform, holding details of all University of Sussex patents, trade marks and design rights enabling the IP team at Sussex to provide instructions for the renewal and to forecast future renewals.

Delivery location

UKJ2

Lot details

Lot 1

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
price

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Patent and copyright consultancy services	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Patent and copyright consultancy services (79120000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 79	6,196	4 median · 32.5 average (2,069 of 6,196 with a bid count)	3.3 average (2,322 of 6,196 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Same buyer	11	3 median · 3.8 average (8 of 11 with a bid count)	1 average (9 of 11 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Delivery region: UKJ2	30	5 median · 533.3 average (15 of 30 with a bid count)	6 average (17 of 30 with named award suppliers)	Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimeNot published

Covered byGPA

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published

No-engagement rationaleNot published

Planning documents0

Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

059020-2025-1

Statusactive

SupplierWellspring EMEA Limited

Contracts

059020-2025-1

Statusactive

Value£348,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-04d066
Latest release ID	059020-2025
Latest release timestamp	Tue Sep 23 2025 15:35:54 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	complete
Procurement method	open
Procurement method details	Open procedure
Main procurement category	services
Above threshold	Not published
Legal basis	32014L0024
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	Not published
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	1
Contracts in latest release	1
Parties in latest release	3

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
23 Sept 2025	award, contract	059020-2025
15 Jan 2025	tender	001427-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)

23 Sept 2025 · 059020-2025 · award, contract

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15 Jan 2025 · 001427-2025 · tender

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Patents and Other IP Rights Renewal Platform

What is being bought

Delivery location

Categories

Lot details

Lot 1

What is included

Comparable-procurement analytics

Price-outcome signal

Procurement strategy & market signals

Planning & early market engagement

Related procurements

Awards

059020-2025-1

Contracts

059020-2025-1

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Notice history

All source data