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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON ENTERPRISE LTD

Library Discovery Platform and Electronic Resource Management

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48000000 48100000
Value£73k
Awarded23 Jul 2015
Published29 Jul 2015
RegionWest Midlands
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£73ktotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£1.1m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Software & IT Systems band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Library discovery platform and associated electronic resource management software.

Suite of software should provide: - Robust and user friendly discovery platform for both physical and electronic library content based on a unified content index spanning all academic publishers and publication types.

Should be available as a SaaS and have API functionality to allow use of data in local services such as reading list management. - Discovery platform should expose content from our library catalogue and institutional repository as well as licensed ebooks, ejournals and other subscribed e-content. - Click through and referral metrics - Article linking and knowledge base functionality to allow seamless access to electronic information resources and full holdings, pricing information or subscribed resources.

With additional rich content provision for journal holdings. -Supply of MARC catalogue records for electronic holdings - Usage statistics across the range of holdings in a simple to use format at a per title resolution (COUNTER compliant) - Full integration with our library management system (Capita Alto). - Centralised e-resource license management and renewals alerting - Single interface for management of all ERM tools - Integrated usage reporting for electronic and physical books - Integration with University reference management system (Refworks) - Support of PDA

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Suite of software should provide

Suite of software should provide:.

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Should be available as a SaaS

Should be available as a SaaS and have API functionality to allow use of data in local services such as reading list management.

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Discovery platform should expose content from our

Discovery platform should expose content from our library catalogue and institutional repository as well as licensed ebooks, ejournals and other subscribed e-content.

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Supply of MARC catalogue records for electronic

Supply of MARC catalogue records for electronic holdings.

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Full integration with our library management system

Full integration with our library management system (Capita Alto).

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