Awarded contract

Library Book Scanning Equipment and Maintenance

Details

Supplier(s)
Bibliotheca
Value
£68,550
Duration
4 years
Topic
Library equipment
Published
31 July 2024

Tender description

Provision of multiple sets of library equipment ranging from RFID/Barcode handheld device scanners as well as two types of Book Return Bins/Kiosks, to be delivered and installed across multiple University Sites. Maintenance and Service cover across a four year period for the equipment once implemented. This was ran as a Mini-Competition under LOT 1 of the LIB1021 AP framework managed by the APUC. All suppliers under this lot were invited and the full process was followed as per the Buyers guide provided for this framework. After the process has been conducted and the standstill completed the relevant supplier was awarded and the apropriate APUC contract drafted and signed.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published31 July 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date27 August 2024
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 August 2028in 2 years

About the buyer

University of Sheffield is a higher education institution whose Procurement Office lets and manages contracts for its schools and departments. Tenders are run through the In-Tend portal, and where required on the Central Digital Platform. The university also buys through regional and national frameworks as a member of the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium, part of UKUPC. They cover catering, furniture, computing, laboratory supplies, postal services, domestic services, professional services and stationery. Once a contract is let, each school and department must buy from the contracted supplier. Lower-value purchases are handled by departments through quotation exercises.

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

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Sheffield's contract awards have been in construction work, industrial machinery and laboratory and precision equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 39155100 · Library equipment

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