PLOS OA Tiered Flat Fee Publishing Agreement 2025

Official notice

Authority: Jisc Services Limited (Public body)

Framework agreementServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Sectors: Education & Training (80) Delivery: UK

Framework ceiling (notional)Value not publishedframework ceiling, not attributable revenue

Awarded 16 Dec 2024no call for competition

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Jisc Services Limited has entered into a contract with Public Library of Science for Jisc members publishing in PLOS Biology and/or PLOS Medicine and/or PLOS Sustainability and Transformation. Jisc members pay an annual participation fee for un-metered (uncapped) publishing. Participating institutions will be part of a community supporting a new funding model for highly-selective open access journals.

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 published

Lot #1Jisc Services Limited has entered into a contract with Public Library of Science for…Awarded

Jisc Services Limited has entered into a contract with Public Library of Science for Jisc members to publish in PLOS Biology and/or PLOS Medicine and/or PLOS Sustainability and Transformation. Jisc members pay an annual participation fee for un-metered (uncapped) publishing. Participating institutions will be part of a community supporting a new funding model for highly-selective open access journals.

Delivery: UK

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: 18 Oct 2024, 15:34 BST
Last source update: 18 Dec 2024, 11:16 GMT
Authority reference: Proc2728
FTS notice number: 2024/S 000-040733
Classification (CPV): Education and training services
Delivery area: UK
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04ade2 Find 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: Public Library of Science is the sole rightsholder and supplier of this resource.

Review and risk notes

Review procedure: Jisc Service 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 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 (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 forecast

Suppliers appointed 1admitted to the panel · see the list ↓

Bids received 1

Contracts signed 2latest 16 Dec 2024

2 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, £1,003,999, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.

Contract 040733-2024-1-1
Signed
16 Dec 2024
Value
ceiling above
Status
active
Contract 033818-2024-1
Signed
17 Oct 2024
Value
ceiling above
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
1bids	—	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Jisc Services Limited

Contracting authorityPublic bodyBody governed by public lawEducation 02881024 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, UK, BS1 6NBContact name, email

Framework contractors & participating bidders

2 commercial parties on the notice

Public Library of ScienceFramework contractor 1265 Battery Streetsuite 200, San Francisco, US, CA 94111
Public Library of ScienceFramework contractor 2108 N Street Suite N, Sacramento, US, CA95816

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.