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Somerset Council

Provision of Library Management System (LMS) for the LibrariesWest Consortium (Re-Procurement)

Business ServicesCPV 79995000
Value£1.5m
Awarded22 Mar 2023
Published1 Mar 2024
RegionSouth West
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£1.5mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.7m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Provision of Library Management System (LMS) for the LibrariesWest Consortium.

The Contracting Authorities are looking for a LMS including (but not restricted to) acquisitions, cataloguing, circulation, public interfaces, reporting, system management, and integration with third party systems.

This is the re-procurement due to not being able to award following the original tender process.

This Contract is being procured by Somerset County Council on behalf of organisations within the Libraries West Consortium which currently consists of: • Bath & North East Somerset Council • Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council • Bristol City Council • Dorset Council • North Somerset Council • Somerset County Council • South Gloucestershire Council During the term of the Contract, the organisations within the Libraries West Consortium, and therefore the eligible users of this Contract, may change.

This procurement is being carried out by the Authority on behalf of all authorities within the LibrariesWest Consortium and any other named authorities listed here at the time of Contract commencement.

For avoidance of doubt the authorities named below will not be joining at the Contract commencement date but will be eligible to do so at any time during the lifetime of the Contract. • Libraries Unlimited • Plymouth City Council • Swindon Council • Wiltshire Council

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This is the re-procurement due to not

This is the re-procurement due to not being able to award following the original tender process.

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