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Periodicals Archives Online Agreement.

Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

This notice is covered by: Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority/entity

I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)

Jisc Services Ltd
Lumen House, Library Avenue
Contact point(s): Procurement Co-ordinator
OX11 0SG Didcot
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1235822341
E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: +44 1235822286

Internet address(es):

General address of the contracting authority/entity: www.jisc.ac.uk

I.2)Type of the contracting authority
Other: national education and research network provider
I.3)Main activity
Education
1.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities/entities
The contracting authority/entity is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities/entities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

II.1)Description
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract
Periodicals Archives Online Agreement.
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Services
Service category No 24: Education and vocational education services

NUTS code UKJ14

II.1.3)Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.4)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
A collection of 50 titles and over 100 000 articles from Periodicals Archives Online to be purchased in perpetuity on behalf of the UK academic community. The collection builds on a previous purchase of journals from PAO made by Jisc in 2008 and would be accessed from the publisher's platform and Jisc's own Journal Archives platform.
II.1.5)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

80000000

II.6)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes
II.2)Total final value of contract(s)
II.2.1)Total final value of contract(s)
Value: 333 000 GBP
Excluding VAT

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (in the cases listed in Section 2 of Annexes D1, D2 or D3 as appropriate)
Justification for the choice of the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEU in accordance with Directive 2004/18/EC
 These titles are not available from any other supplier as ProQuest is sole vendor of Periodicals Archives Online that it owns and digitises the content for.
IV.2)Award criteria
IV.2.1)Award criteria
Lowest price
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
An electronic auction will be used: no
IV.3)Administrative information
IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority/entity
IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract
no

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No: Periodicals Archived Online Agreement Lot No: 1 Lot title: Periodicals Archived Online Agreement
V.1)Date of contract award decision:
5.8.2015
V.2)Information about offers
Number of offers received:1
Number of offers received by electronic means:1
V.3)Name and address of economic operator in favour of whom the contract award decision has been taken

Proquest Information and Learning Limited
The Quorum, Barnwell Road
CB5 8SW Cambridge
UNITED KINGDOM

V.4)Information on value of contract
Initial estimated total value of the contract:
Value: 333 000 GBP
Excluding VAT
V.5)Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be sub-contracted: no

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1)Information about European Union funds
The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no
VI.2)Additional information:
VI.3)Procedures for appeal
VI.3.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures

Jisc

VI.3.2)Lodging of appeals
VI.3.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained
VI.4)Date of dispatch of this notice:
21.7.2015

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