Awarded contract

Journal and E-Publication Access

Details

Buyer: Department for Science Innovation and Technology
Supplier(s): EBSCO International Inc UK
Value: £65,000
Duration: 1 year
Topic: Data supply services
Published: 23 March 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

EBSCO is an online research database that provides access to academic literature and journals whilst supporting literature searching and review. EBSCO is available as an enterprise model meaning everyone across the department can access it. It is used to run literature reviews, fill evidence gaps, and keep up to date with the latest academic research. It supports quality assurance (e.g., sense-checking external literature reviews), collating evidence for option assessments, and methodological work such as econometrics research (literature review, model verification, and comparison with academic findings). ## Contract award ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published23 March 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date23 March 2026
Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2027in 6 months

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. Larger opportunities are advertised as notices on the Find a Tender Service. 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. Supplier diversity targets guide how contracts reach small and medium-sized enterprises across the supply chain.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

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.

Relevant CPV codes

72319000 · Data supply services

Decision makers

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