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LI2581C – Request for Tenders under Open Procedure (OJEU) For the Provision of a Library Services Platform for Trinity College Dublin (TCD)

Details

Topic
Library software package
Published
13 May 2024
Submission
10 June 2024

Tender description

Trinity College Dublin would like to invite tenders for the supply, implementation, maintenance, and support of a SaaS-based Library Services Platform (LSP). The proposed implementation must securely migrate all data from the library’s current system, Sierra by Innovative Interfaces. The data must be fully operational within the new platform and legacy information must be available for querying and reporting. The new LSP must integrate with key University systems, allowing efficient data flows. The proposed solution must provide efficient, integrated workflows for electronic, digital, and print resources and for all acquisition routes: purchase, licence, donation, and legal deposit. It must facilitate a complex circulation and access environment, encompassing different types of storage and users, and it must offer an intuitive, next-generation online interface. Trinity College Dublin would like to invite tenders for the supply, implementation, maintenance, and support of a SaaS-based Library Services Platform (LSP). The proposed implementation must securely migrate all data from the library’s current system, Sierra by Innovative Interfaces. The data must be fully operational within the new platform and legacy information must be available for querying and reporting. The new LSP must integrate with key University systems, allowing efficient data flows. The proposed solution must provide efficient, integrated workflows for electronic, digital, and print resources and for all acquisition routes: purchase, licence, donation, and legal deposit. It must facilitate a complex circulation and access environment, encompassing different types of storage and users, and it must offer an intuitive, next-generation online interface.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published13 May 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date10 June 2024

About the buyer

Education Procurement Service (EPS) is Ireland's national sourcing hub for the education sector, buying for schools, Education and Training Boards and higher education institutions. Every tender EPS runs is published on the national eTenders platform. Framework agreements it manages span laboratory equipment and chemicals, library resources and agriculture and veterinary services. Health Service Executive libraries and public bodies can also draw down these frameworks directly. EPS links to the Office of Government Procurement's central deals for wider public buying. A monthly contract completion database tracks drawdowns, mini-competitions and one-off requisitions across its frameworks.

€29.5bn was the estimated value of contracts awarded across the Irish public sector in 2025.

Over the past 5 years, most of EPS's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, electrical equipment and lighting and medical equipment and pharmaceuticals.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 48160000 · Library software package
  • 48161000 · Library management system
  • 72212160 · Library software development services
  • 79995000 · Library management services
  • 92510000 · Library and archive services
  • 92511000 · Library services

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