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
- Jisc · National Education and Research Network Provider
- Supplier
- Optica Publishing Group
- Value
- £1,440,000
- Procedure
- Negotiated without a call for competition
- Sector
- Education & training · Education and training services (CPV 80000000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date13 Dec 2024
- Published18 Dec 2024Published 5 days after the contract date
Description
Jisc Services Limited has entered into a contract with Optica Publishing Group to offer Jisc members the opportunity to subscribe to its online journals in the field of optics, and also to publish open access articles in those journals. This contract is not for Jisc's own use.
About the supplier
Optica Publishing Group: every public contract they have won.