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THE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH EAST COUNCILS LIMITED

Library Books & Digital Content

Print & PublishingCPV 22000000 22100000 22110000
Value£10.0m
Awarded17 Jan 2022
Published10 May 2022
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£10.0mtotal contract value
median £92k
this tender£0£10.8m

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

NEPO seeks to establish a Framework Agreement for a comprehensive range of Library Books & Digital Content.

The resulting Solution will provide for the delivery and servicing of adult fiction and non-fiction books, children's fiction and non-fiction books, physical multimedia materials (CDs and DVDs, Blu Rays) along with Digital Content including eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, eNewspapers and eComics.

NEPO are using an Open procedure for the procurement of this Framework Agreement.

It is anticipated that up to a maximum of two (2) Suppliers will be appointed to Lot 1-3 and up to a maximum of four (4) Suppliers will be appointed to Lot 4 of the Framework Agreement.

The Framework Agreement will be awarded to those suppliers per Lot with the highest evaluation scores.

The opportunity can be accessed via the NEPO eTendering system.

Suppliers wishing to be considered for this Framework must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the NEPO eTendering System.

If not already registered, candidates should register on the NEPO eTendering system at https://procontract.due north.com/register (https://procontract.due-north.com/register).

Tenders must be submitted using the link above.

Tenders submitted via post or email methods will not be accepted.

If you require time-critical assistance on submitting your Tender, please contact the System Support Team on 0330 0050352.

For non-time critical issues, such as passwords, general account queries and location of information etc, please contact Proactis Supplier Support Helpdesk Ticketing System (http://proactis.kayako.com/ (http://proactis.kayako.com/)) and select ProContract V3 support.

You will then need to log in or submit a ticket to register your issue.

Alternatively, you can email ProContractSuppliers@proactis.com this will automatically log a support ticket on the Proactis Supplier Support Helpdesk.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The resulting Solution will provide for

The resulting Solution will provide for the delivery and servicing of adult fiction and non-fiction books, children's fiction and non-fiction books, physical multimedia materials (CDs and DVDs, Blu Rays) along with Digital Content including eBooks, eAudiobooks, eMagazines, eNewspapers and eComics.

02

Tenders must be submitted using the link

Tenders must be submitted using the link above.

03

If you require time-critical assistance on submitting

If you require time-critical assistance on submitting your Tender, please contact the System Support Team on 0330 0050352.

04

For non-time critical issues, such as passwords

For non-time critical issues, such as passwords, general account queries and location of information etc, please contact Proactis Supplier Support Helpdesk Ticketing System (http://proactis.kayako.com/ (http://proactis.kayako.com/)) and select ProContract V3 support.

05

You will then need to log in

You will then need to log in or submit a ticket to register your issue.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named in obligation language, 1 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

ESPO / YPO / NEPOsays mustFrameworks & routes to market
Suppliers wishing to be considered for this Framework must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the NEPO eTendering System.
Framework agreement (any)Frameworks & routes to market
NEPO seeks to establish a Framework Agreement for a comprehensive range of Library Books & Digital Content.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

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Source & provenance
OCID
306ca439-d84b-4438-bdf2-20be054b3a79
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
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