Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
The Corporate Officer of the House of Lords and the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons
Victoria Street
LONDON
SW1A 0AA
Telephone
+44 2072193801
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKI32 - Westminster
Justification for not providing organisation identifier
Not on any register
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/parliamentuk/aspx/Home
Buyer's address
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/parliamentuk/aspx/Home
one.1) Name and addresses
The Corporate Officer of the House of Lords and the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons
Victoria Street
Westminster, London
SW1A 0AA
Contact
Parliamentary Commercial Directorate (PCD)
Telephone
+44 2072193801
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKI - London
Justification for not providing organisation identifier
Not on any register
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://in-tendhost.co.uk/parliamentuk/aspx/Home
Buyer's address
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Provision of News Aggregator Library Service - UK Parliament
Reference number
PI1301649
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 75110000 - General public services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short 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.
Section six. Complementary information
six.6) Original notice reference
Notice number: 2023/S 000-031232
Section seven. Changes
seven.1) Information to be changed or added
seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number
IV.2.2
Place of text to be modified
IV.2.2 Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Instead of
Date
16 November 2023
Local time
12:00pm
Read
Date
22 November 2023
Local time
12:00pm
seven.2) Other additional information
Tender closing date is Wednesday 22/11/2023 12:00noon UK GMT