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title: "PLOS OA Tiered Flat Fee Publishing Agreement 2025"
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# PLOS OA Tiered Flat Fee Publishing Agreement 2025

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/plos-oa-tiered-flat-fee-publishing-agreement-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-04ade2). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Jisc Services Limited: "PLOS OA Tiered Flat Fee Publishing Agreement 2025". Published status: complete. Framework Ceiling: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Jisc Services Limited](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/jisc-services-limited-coh-02881024)
- **Framework Ceiling (notional):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Education and training services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04ade2`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/plos-oa-tiered-flat-fee-publishing-agreement-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-04ade2#tl-md)

## 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.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** 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-meter...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** 033818-2024-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Public Library of Science**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-127561`
  - Value: £1,003,999 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** 040733-2024-1-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Public Library of Science**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-127561`
  - Value: £1,003,999 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (2)
- **Contract:** 040733-2024-1-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,003,999
  - Signed Date: 16/12/2024

- **Contract:** 033818-2024-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,003,999
  - Signed Date: 16/10/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F040733-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-12-18T11:16:29.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T20:24:38.583Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04ade2