Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- APUC Limited · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Springer Nature
- Value
- £2,100,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Education & training · Education and training services (CPV 80000000)
- Region
- Scotland
- Official notice
- 010122-2023 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date26 Mar 2021
- Published6 Apr 2023Published 741 days after the contract date
Description
APUC has entered into a contract with Springer Nature to offer its member institutions to purchase access to its online eBook Collection. The agreement will be on facilitated by APUC on behalf of the higher education (HE) institutions in Scotland and the National Library of Scotland. APUC will not make any purchases under the agreement Springer Nature is the owner of the intellectual property rights to this content and is the sole supplier of this unique product and service.
About the supplier
Springer Nature: every public contract they have won.