Awarded contract

SAGE Journals Read and Publish 2025

  • Jisc Services Limited

F15: Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

Notice reference: 2024/S 000-038837

Published 3 December 2024, 8:37am



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

Jisc Services Limited

4 Portwall Lane

Bristol

BS1 6NB

Contact

Neil Lewin

Email

procurement@jisc.ac.uk

Telephone

+44 2081482444

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UK - United Kingdom

National registration number

02881024

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.jisc.ac.uk

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

one.5) Main activity

Education


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

SAGE Journals Read and Publish 2025

Reference number

Proc2778

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 80000000 - Education and training services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

Jisc Services Limited is entering 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.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: £9,700,000

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 80000000 - Education and training services

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UK - United Kingdom

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Jisc Services Limited is entering 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.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Price

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Negotiated without a prior call for competition

  • The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:
    • protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights

Explanation:

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.

four.1.3) Information about a framework agreement

The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes


Section five. Award of contract/concession

Contract No

1

Title

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LIMITED - SAGE Journals Read and Publish 2025

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract/concession

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

2 December 2024

five.2.2) Information about tenders

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LIMITED

1 Oliver’s Yard, 55 City Road

London

EC1Y 1SP

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UK - United Kingdom
The contractor/concessionaire is an SME

No

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot/concession (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: £9,700,000


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

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/

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Jisc Services Limited

4 Portwall Lane

Bristol

BS1 6NA

Email

procurement@jisc.ac.uk

Country

United Kingdom

six.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures

Jisc Services Ltd will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to suppliers. This notification provides information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for suppliers to challenge the award decision before the contract is 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).