LI3376R MU PQQ for the Provision of Subscription Agreements for Access to 25 Lots of Electronic Journals

Education Procurement Service (EPS)

IReL (Irish Research eLibrary) is a nationally funded e-resource licensing Consortium providing access to resources on behalf of participating Irish publicly funded higher education institutions (IReL Members). The tender will be divided into twenty five (25) Lots. IReL wishes to enter subscription agreements for access to each of the Lots. The University is seeking expressions of interest from suppliers with the necessary IP rights to license subscription access to these resources.

Deadline

The time limit for receipt of tenders was 2025-07-21. The procurement was published on 2025-06-20.

Who? What? Where?
Procurement history
Date Document
2025-06-20 Contract notice
2025-07-08 Contract notice
Contract notice (2025-06-20)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Title: LI3376R MU PQQ for the Provision of Subscription Agreements for Access to 25 Lots of Electronic Journals
Short description:
IReL (Irish Research eLibrary) is a nationally funded e-resource licensing Consortium providing access to resources on behalf of participating Irish publicly funded higher education institutions (IReL Members). The tender will be divided into twenty five (25) Lots. IReL wishes to enter subscription agreements for access to each of the Lots. The University is seeking expressions of interest from suppliers with the necessary IP rights to license subscription access to these resources.
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Type of contract: Services
Products/services: Library, archives, museums and other cultural services 📦
Estimated value excluding VAT: 22 500 000 EUR 💰
Other restrictions on the place of performance: Anywhere in the given country
Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots
Maximum number of lots that may be awarded to one tenderer: 25
Tenders may be submitted for maximum number of lots: 25

1️⃣
Internal identifier: 10
Title: Electrochemical Science and Technology
Additional products/services: Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
Duration: 72 months
Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 5
Maximum number: 5
Envisaged number of candidates: 5
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0010

2️⃣
Internal identifier: 11
Title: Scientific, Technical and Medical Research
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0011

3️⃣
Internal identifier: 12
Title: American and British Commonwealth Law
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0012

4️⃣
Internal identifier: 13
Title: Earth Sciences Journals
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0013

5️⃣
Internal identifier: 14
Title: Irish Newspaper Archive
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0014

6️⃣
Internal identifier: 15
Title: Humanities and Social Sciences
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0015

7️⃣
Internal identifier: 16
Title: General Medical
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0016

8️⃣
Internal identifier: 17
Title: Optics and Photonics
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0017

9️⃣
Internal identifier: 18
Title: Health and Medical Collections
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0018

1️⃣0️⃣
Internal identifier: 19
Title: Radiology
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0019

1️⃣1️⃣
Internal identifier: 1
Title: Cancer Research
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0001

1️⃣2️⃣
Internal identifier: 20
Title: Neuroscience
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0020

1️⃣3️⃣
Internal identifier: 21
Title: RUP Journals
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0021

1️⃣4️⃣
Internal identifier: 22
Title: Qualitative and quantitative research methods
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0022

1️⃣5️⃣
Internal identifier: 23
Title: Maths, biology and environment
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0023

1️⃣6️⃣
Internal identifier: 24
Title: Open Access Publishing Services
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0024

1️⃣7️⃣
Internal identifier: 25
Title: Electronic resources from the American Psychological Society (APA)
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0025

1️⃣8️⃣
Internal identifier: 2
Title: Mathematical resources
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0002

1️⃣9️⃣
Internal identifier: 3
Title: Physics Journals
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0003

2️⃣0️⃣
Internal identifier: 4
Title: Genes and Physiology
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0004

2️⃣1️⃣
Internal identifier: 5
Title: Microbial Science
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0005

2️⃣2️⃣
Internal identifier: 6
Title: Pharmacology
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0006

2️⃣3️⃣
Internal identifier: 7
Title: Mechanical Engineering Research
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0007

2️⃣4️⃣
Internal identifier: 8
Title: Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0008

2️⃣5️⃣
Internal identifier: 9
Title: Genetics
Title
Lot Identification Number: LOT-0009

Procedure
Type of procedure
Restricted procedure
Legal basis: Directive 2014/24/EU
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-07-21 14:00:00 📅
Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted: English 🗣️
Information about reduction of the number of solutions or tenders during negotiation or dialogue
Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated
Tendering terms
Tenderers may submit more than one tender
Electronic invoicing: Allowed

Contracting authority
Name and addresses
Name: Education Procurement Service (EPS)
National registration number: IE 6609370 G
Postal address: Castletroy Limerick
Postal code: V94 DK53
Postal town: Limerick
Region: Mid-West 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: info@educationprocurementservice.ie 📧
Phone: 061233715 📞
URL: https://www.educationprocurementservice.ie/ 🌏
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.educationprocurementservice.ie/ 🌏
Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
Main activity
Education
Communication
Documents URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/listContractDocuments.do?resourceId=5944149 🌏
Participation URL: https://www.etenders.gov.ie/epps/cft/viewTenders.do?resourceId=5944149 🌏
There is a maximum number of candidates to be invited for the second stage of the procedure
The criteria will be used to select the candidates to be invited for the second stage of the procedure
Electronic submission: Required

Complementary information
Review body
Name: The High Court of Ireland
National registration number: The High Court of Ireland
Department: The High Court of Ireland
Postal address: Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Postal code: D07 WDX8
Postal town: Dublin
Region: Dublin 🏙️
Country: Ireland 🇮🇪
E-mail: highcourtcentraloffice@courts.ie 📧
Phone: +353 1 8886000 📞
Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures: See CFT Documents
Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Source: OJS 2025/S 119-408053 (2025-06-20)
Contract notice (2025-07-08)
Object
Scope of the procurement
Estimated value excluding VAT: 22 500 000 EUR 💰

Procedure
Administrative information
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate: 2025-07-22 14:00:00 📅

Changes
Other additional information
Main reason for change: Information updated
Information about modifications
Version of the previous notice to be changed: 2b2316ec-88d1-4489-a3d7-2f0f617b8d7f-01
Source: OJS 2025/S 129-445586 (2025-07-08)