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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY

Books, E-books, E-textbooks and Associated Services

Print & PublishingCPV 22000000 92511000
Value£2.2m
Awarded1 Jun 2026
Published15 Jul 2026
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£2.2mtotal contract value
median £92k
this tender£0£2.4m

This is a large award for Printed Matter & Publishing — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 2,467 valued Printed Matter & Publishing tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Contract for the the supply of (i) shelf-ready print books that are serviced to our specification: this includes protective covering, RFID tagging, library bar codes, labelling and preparing the book to be available as quickly as possible to users (ii) Ebooks from different publishers and imprints (iii) EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) to connect orders directly to our library catalogue and transmit ISBNs of ordered items to OCLC who automatically supply us with MARC catalogues.

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Stage
contract · Contract
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