Published date: 29 July 2015

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 24 July 2015

Contract summary

Industry

  • Library software package - 48160000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

4019944

Published date

29 July 2015

Closing date

24 July 2015

Contract start date

1 August 2015

Contract end date

31 July 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Library discovery platform and associated electronic resource management software. Suite of software should provide:
- Robust and user friendly discovery platform for both physical and electronic library content based on a unified content index spanning all academic publishers and publication types. Should be available as a SaaS and have API functionality to allow use of data in local services such as reading list management.
- Discovery platform should expose content from our library catalogue and institutional repository as well as licensed ebooks, ejournals and other subscribed e-content.
- Click through and referral metrics
- Article linking and knowledge base functionality to allow seamless access to electronic information resources and full holdings, pricing information or subscribed resources. With additional rich content provision for journal holdings.
-Supply of MARC catalogue records for electronic holdings
- Usage statistics across the range of holdings in a simple to use format at a per title resolution (COUNTER compliant)
- Full integration with our library management system (Capita Alto).
- Centralised e-resource license management and renewals alerting
- Single interface for management of all ERM tools
- Integrated usage reporting for electronic and physical books
- Integration with University reference management system (Refworks)
- Support of PDA

Award information

Awarded date

24 July 2015

Contract start date

1 August 2015

Contract end date

31 July 2017

Total value of contract

£72,782.65

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Proquest

Address

Proquest Information and Learning Ltd
The Quorum
Barnwell Road
Cambridge
UK
CB5 8SW

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Address

Finance Department
MX Building, Camp Street
Wolverhampton
WV1 1AD
England

Email

Procurement@wlv.ac.uk