A consortium of higher educational institutions in Ireland including universities, members of the Irish Universities Association and the THEA. This consortium is coordinated via Maynooth University and uses MU procurement expertise in conjunction with EPS.
Deadline
The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2022-09-26.
The procurement was published on 2022-08-25.
Object Scope of the procurement
Title: PQQ for the provision of Scholarly Platforms and associated journals
LI2273R
Products/services: Library management system📦
Short description:
“A consortium of higher educational institutions in Ireland including universities, members of the Irish Universities Association and the THEA. This...”
Short description
A consortium of higher educational institutions in Ireland including universities, members of the Irish Universities Association and the THEA. This consortium is coordinated via Maynooth University and uses MU procurement expertise in conjunction with EPS.
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Estimated value excluding VAT: EUR 20 000 000 💰
Information about lots
Tenders may be submitted for all lots
Maynooth University has been appointed by members of consortium of higher educational institutions in Ireland including universities, members of the Irish Universities Association and the THEA (See background below), as their non-exclusive agent, to enter into agreements on the Members’ behalf for accessing electronic educational and research resources.The Consortium wishes to enter subscription agreements for access to each of the following resources.
LOT Scholarly Platform Description Scope
1 Science Direct, Freedom Collection ScienceDirect is a bespoke discovery platform of peer-reviewed literature from over 4,000 Elsevier journals and books. The Freedom collection is offered to academic customers exclusively.
2 SCOPUS Scopus citation database. For Information, Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences and health sciences. It contains enriched data and links out to scholarly literature.
3 SciVal SciVal is a web-based analytics solution that works in conjunction with Scopus. It provides comprehensive access to the research performance of over 20,000 research institutions and their associated researchers from 230 nations worldwide. SciVal allows universities to visualize research performance, benchmark relative to peers, develop strategic partnerships, and identify and analyse new, emerging research trends. Metrics include a top-level country level through to an individual researcher level spreading across all subject areas or at a more granular subject area/ to sub-category subject area.
4 Knovel Engineering reference works and databases from over 50 leading technical publishers and professional societies like AIAA, AIChE, ASME and NACE in 23 subject areas.
It combines a search engine with interactive tools to manipulate, analyse and export data.
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Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Description
Duration: 12
Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
This contract is subject to renewal ✅ Description
Description of renewals:
“Contracts arising from this process will be for periods of 12 to 60 months. Terms will be at the discretion of individual institutions of the consortium.”
2️⃣ Scope of the procurement
Title: Scopus
Title
Lot Identification Number: 2
3️⃣ Scope of the procurement
Title: SciVal
Title
Lot Identification Number: 3
4️⃣ Scope of the procurement
Title: Knovel
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Lot Identification Number: 4
Legal, economic, financial and technical information Conditions for participation
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Technical and professional ability
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Conditions for participation
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Conditions related to the contract
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Procedure Type of procedure
Restricted procedure
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2022-09-26
14:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
The time frame below is expressed in number of months.
Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender: 12
Complementary information Review body
Name: Office of the High Court
Postal address: Four Courts Ground Floor, Inns Quay
Postal town: Dublin
Postal code: 7
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Phone: +353 18886000📞
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie📧
Source: OJS 2022/S 166-470932 (2022-08-25)