Expired contract

Bibliometric data- SciVal

Details

Buyer: Department for Science Innovation and Technology
Supplier(s): Elsevier B.V.
Value: £41,241.9
Duration: 1 year
Topic: Data supply services
Published: 9 September 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Elsevier.B.V currently holds individual subscription licences for SciVal, which provides access to bibliometric data and essential impact metrics and analytical data required by several teams within DSIT. This data is fundamental to supporting ongoing research across diverse sectors, enabling assessment of the effectiveness and influence of DSIT’s funding and investment initiatives. Furthermore, SciVal’s information will be used for skills and workforce monitoring, specifically to track the career trajectories of professionals within the UK science and technology sectors. The continuity of this data provision is crucial, as it directly feeds into Official Statistics, departmental publications, and underpins the department’s core operational functions ## Contract award Title: Bibliometric data ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published9 September 2025
Current notice
Completed: Award date9 September 2025
Completed: Contract expiry date9 October 2026

About the buyer

The Department for Science Innovation and Technology is a central government department, and a dedicated commercial directorate leads on its procurement work alongside project and delivery teams. Common goods and services are bought through Crown Commercial Service frameworks. UK Shared Business Services, a shared-services provider, manages many of the department's lower-value procurements on its behalf. Low-value orders require multiple supplier quotes to ensure value for money.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Department for Science Innovation and Technology's contract awards have been in IT services, research and development and software and information systems.

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