Awarded contract

CINAHL Ultimate 2026-2029 renewal

Details

Buyer: Coventry University
Supplier(s): EBSCO International Inc UK
Value: £84,700
Duration: 3 years
Topic: Software package and information systems
Published: 28 October 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

CINAHL is the leading database for Nursing, Midwifery, Allied Health, and Health Sciences, providing access to approximately 3,500 peer-reviewed journals and a growing collection of 1,570 open access journals. It underpins teaching, learning, and research across all health and science disciplines and is embedded within reading lists, library teaching, and module assessments. This is reflected in the more than 42,000 unique item requests per annum. Many assignments require students to use CINAHL to identify and evaluate high-quality evidence in support of evidence-based practice ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published28 October 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date28 October 2026
Next: Contract expiry date30 September 2029in 3 years

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.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@coventry-university.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@coventry-university.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@coventry-university.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@coventry-university.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@coventry-university.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@coventry-university.gov