Lexis Nexis Subscription

Location

Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan: Cardiff Metropolitan University, Western Avenue, Cardiff CF5 2YB

Description

Subscription to Lexis+, which is an online legal research platform providing access to UK, US and international case law, legislation and legal journal articles. Lexis+ includes full text access to Halsbury’s Laws of England, Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents plus many other notable legal practitioner works in full text. All these resources are considered essential for universities teaching accredited law degree courses.

Total Quantity or Scope

The University wishes to procure a four year subscription to the Lexis plus database for the student population commencing on the 6th August 2023. As a provider of Law degrees Cardiff Metropolitan University must provide its staff and students with access to extensive range of legal materials. Sourcing this material in an electronic format is preferable not only to allow for our staff / students to access the content at their convenience outside of the physical library’s opening hours but to familiarise them with legal research platforms they are likely to use in their future employment. The practitioner content included within Lexis+ is unique and Lexis Nexis own the IPR for this and the Lexis+ platform. This means the services are only available from this one supplier. In publishing this notice we are aiming to be transparent as we believe this product can only be obtained from Lexis Nexis.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 22211000 - Journals
• 22212000 - Periodicals

Legal Justification

We have undertaken market research and have identified that the practitioner content included within Lexis+ is unique and Lexis Nexis own the IPR for this and the Lexis+ platform. This means the services are only available from this one supplier. We have not as yet signed a contract with the supplier, we will be allowing a 10 day period to pass before formally entering into a contract to allow any prospective supplier who believes they maybe able to fully assist with our requirements to advise us of this before the 10 day period ends.

Other Information

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