SAGE Journals Read and Publish 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 13 Dec 2024no call for competition

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Jisc Services Limited has entered into a contract with SAGE PUBLICATIONS LIMITED. Jisc intends to enter into a contract with SAGE to offer Jisc members the opportunity to subscribe to and publish articles in SAGE’s journals, focussing on the Social Sciences, Engineering and the Sciences. SAGE is the rightsholder to these journal titles and the only supplier of this service. This contract is for use by Jisc Members only and not for Jisc's own use.

CPV: Education and training services

How this framework works

From the published notice

Bids received: 1 bids received · 2 suppliers appointed

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

Delivery: UK

80000000 Education and training services

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: 3 Dec 2024, 08:37 GMT
Last source update: 12 Jan 2025, 00:16 GMT
Authority reference: Proc2778
FTS notice number: 2025/S 000-000962
Classification (CPV): Education and training services
Delivery area: UK
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04c1ac 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: 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 and risk notes

Review procedure: Jisc Services Limited incorporated a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract was shared by means of a VEAT notice. This notification provided information on the award decision. The standstill period, 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 a School or College • Multi Academy Trusts and other such organisations established and acting on behalf of Schools and Colleges • Specialist Colleges • Research councils and other such organisations (including those established for the provision of both education and research • 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. This 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 2admitted to the panel · see the list ↓

Bids received 1

Contracts signed 2latest 13 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, £9,700,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.

Contract 000962-2025-1-1
Signed
13 Dec 2024
Value
ceiling above
Status
active
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LIMITED - SAGE Journals Read and Publish 2025
Signed
2 Dec 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, phone

Framework contractors & participating bidders

2 commercial parties on the notice

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LIMITEDFramework contractor 1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road, London, UK, EC1Y 1SP
SAGE Publishing LimitedFramework contractor 1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road, London, UK, EC1Y 1SP

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.