RHUL-24076 Procurement of Serial and Periodical Publications (Library Services)

About the buyer

Royal Holloway, University of London is a higher education institution based in Egham, Surrey. The university procures through direct open tendering, higher-education frameworks and under-threshold purchasing set out in its financial standing orders, following the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Suppliers also bid through a dedicated tender portal hosted on the EU Supply platform. The university is a member of the London Universities Purchasing Consortium. That consortium gives London's universities, including Royal Holloway, shared access to pre-tendered frameworks for common goods and services purchases. Daniel Barry represents Royal Holloway on the consortium's executive committee.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of Royal Holloway, University of London's contract awards have been in construction work, software and information systems and printed matter.