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title: "Provision of News Aggregator Library Service - UK Parliament"
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# Provision of News Aggregator Library Service - UK Parliament

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-news-aggregator-library-service-uk-parliament-ocds-h6vhtk-040e48). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** The Corporate Officer of the House of Lords      and      The Corporate Officer of the House of Commons: "Provision of News Aggregator Library Service - UK Parliament". Published status: active. Published Value: £1,670,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 16 Nov 2023, 14:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [The Corporate Officer of the House of Lords      and      The Corporate Officer of the House of Commons](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/the-corporate-officer-of-the-house-of-lords-and-the-corporat-GB-FTS-5886)
- **Published Value:** £1,670,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 16 November 2023 at 14:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** General public services, Library software package
- **Delivery Location:** UKI
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 1 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/provision-of-news-aggregator-library-service-uk-parliament-ocds-h6vhtk-040e48#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-040e48`

## 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/provision-of-news-aggregator-library-service-uk-parliament-ocds-h6vhtk-040e48#tl-md)

## Description
The Authority requires a news database for UK, regional and international titles with a substantial archive and the ability for all users, including Library customers, to create alerts and export their preferred search results.
Specific requirements are:
• An intuitive and easy to use interfaces that meet the needs of both general users (who require a quick, simple search facility) and specialist researchers (who require the ability to combine multiple search terms/fields and refine/filter their results).
• Ability to use a drop down menu or similar to limit searches by pre-defined groups of titles, such as UK newspapers, UK broadsheets, UK tabloids, UK regionals, all English news, UK publications, all news, European news.
• The ability to search by an individual title or publication.
• The ability to search just within headline or author as well as within the full article.
• Ability to filter their results by date range, by subject, by publication name and by type.
• Users ability to recall searches from their recent search history.
• The service must provide the ability for users to de-duplicate their search results.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 48160000
- **Delivery regions:** UKI

- **Estimated Value:** £1,670,000
- **Description:** Provision of a news database for UK, regional and international titles with a substantial archive and the ability for all users, including Library customers, to create alerts and export their preferred search results.

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F031249-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-10-23T15:18:21.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T10:54:06.188Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-040e48