Awarded contract

Clincial Key Library

Details

Buyer: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Supplier(s): Elsevier B.V.
Value: £271,672.7
Duration: 4 years
Topic: Library, archives, museums and other cultural services
Published: 15 July 2026
Source: uk:contracts_finder

Tender description

Elsevier Clinical Key provides medical professionals and researchers at NUH with 24/7 access to over 1000 e-textbooks (including core titles and atlases), over 900 full text journals, over 17,000 medical and surgical videos, plus over 3 million images. The library has purchased Clinical Key for 5 years and this e package forms part of the annual subscription renewals. Additional information: Elsevier B.V. are the sole source provider of the Clinical Key service and providers web based access to searchable databases with unique search functionality and proprietary components. A Direct Award was approved, under the National Institute For Health And Care Excellence (NICE) Electronic and Print Content Framework Agreement (NICEFAHEE/2125) in December 2021.

Timeline

Completed: Award date28 December 2025
Completed: Award published15 July 2026
Current notice
Next: Contract expiry date27 December 2029in 3 years

About the buyer

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust runs acute and specialist hospital care across Nottingham, and buys as a Healthcare provider with supplier invoices processed through NHS SBS. Five sites, including Queen's Medical Centre and Nottingham City Hospital, deliver the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre. Around 20,000 staff support patient care across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. Suppliers are paid under a no purchase order, no pay policy. The trust partners with Medilink East Midlands on the INSTILS programme to engage medtech suppliers.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust's contract awards have been in IT services, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and software and information systems.

Relevant CPV codes

92500000 · Library, archives, museums and other cultural services

Decision makers

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