Pipeline

Serials and Periodicals

  • UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX(THE)

UK1: Pipeline notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-026411

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0522cb

Published 23 May 2025, 1:58pm



Scope

Reference

US_24207

Description

The current services involves:

Subscriptions agent services for the supply of print and electronic serials and periodicals on a prepaid annual subscription basis. The scope of products includes (but is not limited to):

 Current and back-issues of periodicals, newspapers, and annuals (conference

 proceedings, reports, yearbooks, etc)

 Journals, memoirs, proceedings, transactions, and other similar publications of societies

 Numbered monographic series

 Standing Orders

 Databases (including e-book content)

 Membership subscriptions

Associated services include consolidation services for print subscriptions and also any additional services that relate to the supply and management of subscription resources, such as usage analytics tools and Open Access publishing services.

The original route to market for the existing requirement was via a Framework.

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 October 2028 to 1 October 2032
  • 4 years, 1 day

Main category

Goods

CPV classifications

  • 22212000 - Periodicals

Contract locations

  • UKJ2 - Surrey, East and West Sussex

Submission

Publication date of tender notice (estimated)

1 October 2026


Contracting authority

UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX(THE)

  • Companies House: RC000672
  • Public Procurement Organisation Number: PWVT-1568-HWWM

Sussex House

Falmer, Brighton

BN1 9RH

United Kingdom

Region: UKJ21 - Brighton and Hove

Organisation type: Public authority - sub-central government