CORE Membership 2025/30
Details
- Buyer
- Jisc
- Supplier(s)
- The Open University
- Value
- £750,000
- Duration
- 6 years
- Topic
- Education and training services
- Published
- 10 June 2025
- Source
- uk:find_a_tender
Tender description
Jisc Services Ltd has entered into an agreement with The Open University to give its members the opportunity to participate in CORE, an open infrastructure service that indexes research papers from institutional and subject repositories, open access and hybrid journals. The contract will be with Jisc Services Limited as a subsidiary of Jisc. This contract is for use by Jisc Members only and not for Jisc's own use. ## Contract award Title: CORE Membership 2025/30 ## Contract award
Timeline
- Completed: Award published10 June 2025Current notice
- Completed: Award date10 June 2025
- Next: Contract expiry date30 November 2030in 4 years
About the buyer
Jisc provides digital, data and network services to UK higher and further education, and buys as a central body with its own commercial team. Suppliers register free on the Mercell e-tendering portal to view and respond to opportunities. Contracts also appear on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender Service. A procurement pipeline lists larger contracts expected over the next five years. Frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems cover network equipment, cloud services and research systems. Member universities and colleges call off these agreements directly, without running their own tender. Regional partners including SUPC, APUC and HEPCW extend this buying power across the sector.
Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.
Over the past 5 years, most of Jisc's contract awards have been in education and training, IT services and software and information systems.
Relevant CPV codes
- 80000000 · Education and training services
Decision makers
Connect with the people behind this procurement.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@jisc.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@jisc.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@jisc.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@jisc.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@jisc.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@jisc.gov |
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