Notice Information
Notice Title
Chemical Abstracts Service - SciFinder
Notice Description
Provision of Chemical Abstracts Service - SciFinder
Lot Information
Lot 1
Chemical Abstracts Service - SciFinder. For clarity - the contract reference noted in the VEAT notice and in II.1.1 was inaccurate. The correct contract reference number is UOS-39278-S-2025.
Procurement Information
American Chemical Society is the sole agent for its Chemical Abstracts Service Scifinder and owns the intellectual property of its academic publications. The research database material and tools are unique to the Scifinder platform and are unavailable elsewhere A Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency Notice (VEAT) was dispatched via Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) on 10/10/2025 which provided third parties with the opportunity to raise their objection to the contract being awarded without competition. No objection was received. Therefore it has been determined that the appropriate route to market for this requirement is an award without competition in accordance with The Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016, Regulation 6 - Circumstances in which a contract can be awarded without competition - (1) A contracting authority may award a public contract without seeking offers in relation to the proposed contract - b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons - (iii) the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000812740
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=DEC546028
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- OJEU - F3 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
80 - Education and training services
-
- CPV Codes
80420000 - E-learning services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £151,736 £100K-£500K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 18 Dec 20252 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 1 Oct 20254 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE
- Contact Name
- Anna Sanina, Mrs Laura A Shaw
- Contact Email
- anna.sanina@strath.ac.uk, laura.shaw@strath.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 7811592949
Buyer Location
- Locality
- GLASGOW
- Postcode
- G1 1XU
- Post Town
- Glasgow
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM3 West Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM32 Glasgow City
- Delivery Location
- TLM82 Glasgow City
-
- Local Authority
- Glasgow City
- Electoral Ward
- Anderston/City/Yorkhill
- Westminster Constituency
- Glasgow North East
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT541812
Chemical Abstracts Service - SciFinder - Provision of Chemical Abstracts Service - SciFinder -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=DEC546028
Chemical Abstracts Service - SciFinder - Provision of Chemical Abstracts Service - SciFinder
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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