Awarded contract

Digital Open Access Publishing Platform and Associated Publishing Services

Details

Supplier(s)
Ubiquity Press Ltd
Value
£790,000
Topic
Electronic publishing software package
Published
15 January 2024

Tender description

The White Rose University Press (WRUP) is a non-profit, open access digital publisher of peer-reviewed academic journals and books, publishing across a wide range of academic disciplines. WRUP has entered into a five-year contract with a single established service provider for the provision of technical and publishing services to support the operation of the press. This involves system provision (platform and infrastructure) as well as a full range of publishing services. Lot 1: The contract covers the provision of an established publishing platform, and all necessary infrastructure for the publishing of open access digital journals, books, research data and conference proceedings under the institution's own university press branding. Additional services will be provided to support editorial management, peer-review, anti-plagiarism checking, copyediting, typesetting, design and layout, long-term preservation, and indexing, alongside content promotion, an online portal for making publications available for free download, and capacity to support print-on-demand hardcopy distribution of books through a range of channels.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published15 January 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date4 September 2024

About the buyer

The University of York is an English university in Heslington, York, with its own Procurement Office. Membership of the North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium gives access to its framework agreements. Those NEUPC frameworks are the first resort before an alternative route is considered. Most orders are placed directly by departments through the York e-purchasing system, known as YEP.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of York's contract awards have been in software and information systems, laboratory and precision equipment and business services.

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