Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13b99-0303-7002-a49c-2575e76ca1e5/serials-periodicals-and-associated-services-print-and-digital

closed GB open procedure Suitable for SMEs

# Serials, Periodicals, and Associated Services (Print and Digital)

[Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC)](https://tendernation.io/buyers/southern-universities-purchasing-consortium-supc)

Estimated value

£300,000,000

Published

14 Apr 2023

Deadline

Closed

30 May 2023

## Who can bid

- Buyer says suitable for SMEs

    The buyer ticked “suitable for SMEs” on the notice. Anyone can still bid.
- Open procedure

    Anyone can submit a full tender; there is no shortlisting stage.

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## About this tender

The current 'Serials, Periodicals and Associated Services' agreement is led by SUPC and supported by HEPCW, LUPC, NEUPC, and NWUPC along with the four specialist library consortia Academic Libraries North, MUAL, NEYAL, and WHELF. The agreement ran for an initial 2 year period and has had two 12 month extensions, totally four years. It expires on 30th April 2023 and is likely to be extended until 31st July 2023.

The agreement scope remains similar to the current agreement and will cover the supply of serials by subscriptions agents in print and/or electronic formats. This includes current, backissue, backsets and digital archives of periodicals; newspapers and annuals (annual conference proceedings, reports, yearbooks, etc); the journals, memoirs, proceedings, transactions and other similar publications of societies; numbered monographic series; standing orders; standards and databases. Also included are associated services relating to consolidation or usage analysis.

## CPV classification

Newspapers, journals, periodicals and magazines

Source

Contracts Finder (UK)

[View official notice](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/251fff57-38bd-413c-b974-80ef82e7091a)

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