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Primary Source Library Archive Collections

UNIVERSITY OF YORK

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12 Jan 2023 at 13:37

Summary of the contracting process

The University of York has completed a procurement process for library and archive services titled "Primary Source Library Archive Collections." This tender, under the main procurement category of services, aims to expand existing primary source content holdings to support teaching and research. The University has awarded the contract to Cengage Learning EMEA Limited (trading as Gale), with a value of £375,000. The procurement method used was a limited negotiation without publication of a contract notice. Key focus areas include British Library Newspapers, Making Of The Modern World, and Nineteenth Century Collections Online, providing exclusive content licensed in the UK.

This opportunity created by the University of York's tender for library and archive services presents a unique chance for businesses in the educational content and research sectors. Companies specialising in digitisation services, historical document preservation, and academic database management would be well-suited to compete for this contract. The procurement stage has reached the award phase, offering the selected supplier, Cengage Learning EMEA Limited (trading as Gale), the opportunity to expand their reach in the education industry. The significant investment of £375,000 demonstrates the University's commitment to enhancing its teaching and research capabilities through enriched primary source materials.

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Notice Title

Primary Source Library Archive Collections

Notice Description

Expansion of existing primary source content holdings in particular areas to support specific cases of teaching and research.

Lot Information

Lot 1

Expansion of existing primary source content holdings in particular areas to support specific cases of teaching and research.

Procurement Information

The University of York is looking to expand existing primary source content holdings in particular areas to support specific cases of teaching and research, following consultation with academics in the department of English. These archives are exclusively licensed in the UK and are unavailable from any other supplier, several of them are additions to other digital resources that the University already holds. - British Library Newspapers: Part IV provides 23 publications (nearly 1.4 million pages) from across the United Kingdom and Ireland to reflect the social, political, and cultural events of the times. - British Library Newspapers: Part V. With a concentration of titles from the northern part of the United Kingdom, the 36 newspapers in Part V deepen Gale's northern regional content, doubling coverage in Scotland, tripling coverage in the Midlands, and adding a significant number of Northern titles to the British Library Newspapers series. - British Library Newspapers: Part VI adds an additional 80 titles to the series and, as the name suggests, these were all published in Ireland in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. - Making Of The Modern World, Part 1: the Goldsmith's-Kress Collection, 1450-1850. With full-text search capabilities this resource provides unparalleled access to more than 61,000 books and 466 serials -- more than 12 million pages in all -- many of which are the only known copy of the work in the world. - Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, the Corvey Collection, 1790-1840. includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the library of Victor Amadeus, Castle Corvey collection. - State Papers Online - 18th Century Part I. Approximately 300,000 folios about the reigns of the three Georges, including behind-the-scenes accounts of the turbulent events of George I's reign. - State Papers Online - Stuart & Cumberland Papers. Digitised for the first time, the Stuart and Cumberland Papers from the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle are now available online in their entirety. The Stuart Papers represent the correspondence and personal documents of the exiled members of the Stuart dynasty after 1688. Furthermore, as well as the exclusively licensed nature of the content itself, procuring it from this supplier will allow it to be accessed through the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. This is a proprietary platform that the University already subscribes to, which allows users to run powerful analysis and extract meaningful visualisations that can be used to form the basis of teaching resources and research content. It allows primary source documents to be accessed with full OCR for digital analysis and provides text and data mining possibilities. The major requirement of procurement via Gale means that, unlike other digital primary sources, these resources will have cross search functionality and features that support learning and teaching within a single platform.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-0396e9
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/000964-2023
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Limited
Procurement Method Details
Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

92 - Recreational, cultural and sporting services


CPV Codes

92510000 - Library and archive services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£375,000 £100K-£500K

Notice Dates

Publication Date
12 Jan 20233 years ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
12 Jan 20233 years ago
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
Contact Name
Rob Hunt
Contact Email
procurement@york.ac.uk
Contact Phone
+44 1904328201

Buyer Location

Locality
YORK
Postcode
YO10 5DD
Post Town
York
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLE Yorkshire and The Humber
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLE2 North Yorkshire
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLE21 York
Delivery Location
TLE21 York

Local Authority
York
Electoral Ward
Hull Road
Westminster Constituency
York Central

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

CENGAGE LEARNING EMEA LIMITED (TRADING AS GALE

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