Further competiton for the provision of e-books

Contract summary

Industry

• Library books - 22113000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£20,000

Procurement reference

22-210

Published date

25 January 2023

Closing date

15 July 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 September 2022

Contract end date

31 August 2024

Contract type

Supply contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

The University of West London (UWL) invites you to submit a bid to supply E-Books to its
Libraries.
1.1.2 UWL Library Services and Archives is core to the student and academic experience at
the University of West London, and supports our institutional strategic focus on
developing learners as innovative and creative professionals.
Our library team support a student body of over 10,000 and 1,000 staff in all aspects of
library and information provision across two sites with our main Paul Hamlyn Library at
our Ealing site and a health library at our Reading site. UWL also has a possible 3rd site
at Ruskin College, Oxford.
Library Services is in the final year of our current strategic plan which runs until 2023.
Centred within our strategy is developing inclusive, welcoming library services which
reflect our university's mission of extending higher education to those traditionally
excluded from it.
Two principles are core to delivery of our plan:
• A continuous improvement approach to service development, which
alongside year-on-year improvements in customer service has seen us
create key performance indicators based on new methodologies.
• Main-streaming of user experience (UX) research, which forms an
important basis for our qualitative understanding of our students' needs and
expectations of a contemporary library service.
For further information, please visit www.uwl.ac.uk/library
1.1.3 The go live date is ideally August to allow orders to be placed before the academic year
begins.
1.1.4 The contract will be for 2 years, with the option to extend for a further 2 years in 12-month
increments (+1+1) subject to satisfactory performance and at the discretion of UWL.

1.1.5 UWL may appoint the top two scoring suppliers. All orders initially will go to the first
selected supplier, but if they cannot supply a particular title or supply times/licence options
do not meet our needs (for example), then orders will be placed with the second selected
supplier.
1.1.6 The procurement exercise will be carried out in accordance with and subject to the SUPC
Books, E-books, E-textbooks, and Associated Services, Ref: LIB4044 SU
Except where expressly permitted otherwise, all communication pertaining to this Further
Competition process (including any Further Competition Submissions) must be transmitted
via "EUSupply", UWL's web-based system, available at https://uk.eusupply.com/login.asp?B=uwl Attempts by Bidders to communicate with UWL via any other
medium will not be responded to and Further Competition Submissions received through
any other such medium will be rejected

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Award information

Awarded date

16 November 2022

Contract start date

1 September 2022

Contract end date

31 August 2024

Total value of contract

£400,000

This contract was awarded to 2 suppliers.

ProQuest LLC

A T Little & Sons

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About the buyer

Contact name

Kirsty Larsen

Address

St. Marys Road
LONDON
W55RF
England

Telephone

020 82312 388

Email

kirsty.larsen@uwl.ac.uk