Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Supplier
- Ebsco International Inc
- Value
- £2,200,000
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- Printed matter · Printed matter and related products (CPV 22000000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date22 Jun 2026
- Published15 Jul 2026Published 23 days after the contract date
Description
Contract for the the supply of (i) shelf-ready print books that are serviced to our specification: this includes protective covering, RFID tagging, library bar codes, labelling and preparing the book to be available as quickly as possible to users (ii) Ebooks from different publishers and imprints (iii) EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) to connect orders directly to our library catalogue and transmit ISBNs of ordered items to OCLC who automatically supply us with MARC catalogues.
About the supplier
Ebsco International Inc: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company BR011966).