PQQ for the provision of Scholarly Platforms and associated journals

Education Procurement Service (EPS)

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.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2022-08-25 Contract notice
Contract notice (2022-08-25)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: Library management system
Reference number: LI2273R
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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Notice metadata
Original language: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Document type: Contract notice
Nature of contract: Supplies
Regulation: European Union, with participation of GPA countries
Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
Code: Library management system ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Additional CPV: Library books ๐Ÿ“ฆ
Place of performance
NUTS region: ร‰ire/Ireland ๐Ÿ™๏ธ

Procedure
Procedure type: Restricted procedure
Type of bid: Submission for all lots
Award criteria
The most economic tender

Contracting authority
Identity
Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Awarding authority type: Body governed by public law
Awarding authority name: Education Procurement Service (EPS)
Postal address: University of Limerick
Postal code: Co.Limerick
Postal town: Castletroy
Contact
Internet address: http://www.educationprocurementservice.ie ๐ŸŒ
E-mail: ann.s.murray@ul.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Phone: +353 61234662 ๐Ÿ“ž
URL for documents: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=221948&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ
URL for participation: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=221948&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

Reference
Dates
Date dispatched: 2022-08-25 ๐Ÿ“…
Submission deadline: 2022-09-26 ๐Ÿ“…
Publication date: 2022-08-30 ๐Ÿ“…
Identifiers
Notice number: 2022/S 166-470932
OJ-S issue: 166

Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated total value: 20 000 000 EUR ๐Ÿ’ฐ
Title of the lot: Science Direct, Freedom Collection
Lot number: 1
Short description:
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 Membersโ€™ behalf for accessing electronic educational and research resources.The Consortium wishes to enter subscription agreements for access to each of the following resources.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Duration: 12 months
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.
Title of the lot: Scopus
Lot number: 2
Title of the lot: SciVal
Lot number: 3
Title of the lot: Knovel
Lot number: 4

Legal, economic, financial and technical information
Conditions for participation
Suitability to pursue the professional activity: Please see RFT document for further details.
Economic and financial standing: Please see RFT document for further details.
Minimum level(s) of standards: Please see RFT document for further details.
Technical and professional ability: Please see RFT document for further details.
Contract execution
Contract performance conditions: Please see RFT document for further details.

Procedure
Legal basis: 32014L0024
Time of receipt of tenders: 14:00
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ
Tender validity period: 12 months

Contracting authority
Identity
National registration number: IE 6609370 G
Contact
Contact point: Ann Murray
Address of the buyer profile: https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/87073 ๐ŸŒ
Documents URL: http://irl.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=221948&B=ETENDERS_SIMPLE ๐ŸŒ

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 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
Phone: +353 18886000 ๐Ÿ“ž
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie ๐Ÿ“ง
Source: OJS 2022/S 166-470932 (2022-08-25)
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