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PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Award Notice for Books, E-books E-textbooks, and Associated Services

UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER · published 24 Dec 2025. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

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Contracts Finder release IDbcb5e861-0823-444a-aed5-a077a11acbcd-877067
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-752306ca-f01e-490e-9385-99b9bb89aedf
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/k3Hx4y9N
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£180,000
award field
Tender value
£360,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
22112000
Textbooks
Delivery
North West, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

This Award Notice follows the University of Chester placing a direct award with EBSCO International Ltd under Lot 1: Print publications: standard suppliers for library stock and EBSCO International Ltd and Browns Books (A.T. Little & Sons Limited) under Lot 4: E-book aggregator: title-by-title perpetual access purchase of the Books, E-books, E-textbooks, and Associated Services framework agreement. The University can access this agreement as a member of NWUPC. In line with the guidance provided by SUPC this direct award is made under the framework Terms and Conditions. All values in this award notice have been rounded up and the contract end date includes the optional extension periods.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release24 Dec 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published18 Dec 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published4 Jan 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published3 Jan 2030
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 24 Dec 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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