Awarded contract

Elsevier ScienceDirect Evidence Based Selection (EBS) renewal

Details

Supplier(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Value
£68,005
Duration
11 months
Topic
Software package and information systems
Published
18 August 2026

Tender description

ScienceDirect is one of CU's most extensively used platforms, used across all subjects and all campuses at every level of study. It provides a huge depth and quantity of content that cannot be matched by any other publisher. The cost of change would outweigh any commercial benefits from a competitive procurement process. The value of the contract is below the UK Government threshold of £207,720.00 including VAT for tendering for goods and services. ## Contract award

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published18 August 2026
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date18 August 2026
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 July 2027in 9 months

About the buyer

Coventry University buys as a higher education institution, with a centralised procurement team based in its Finance Department at the Armstrong Siddeley Building. Suppliers must complete a competitive tender process before they gain approved status. Coventry University belongs to the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium, a collaborative buying group for more than one hundred higher and further education institutions.

Further competitions run on the framework agreements the consortium negotiates across most commodity areas.

Over the past 5 years, most of Coventry University's contract awards have been in software and information systems, business services and IT services.

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