Provision of Specific Scientific Database Materials and Tools

Location

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Description

The University of Strathclyde's Library requires specific scientific research database material and tools provided by this platform.

Total Quantity or Scope

American Chemical Society is the sole agent for its Chemical Abstracts Service Scifinder and owns the intellectual property of its academic publications. The research database material and tools are unique to the Scifinder platform and are unavailable elsewhere. The proprietary academic content is heavily used by the Science Faculty within the University of Strathclyde and the unique and original research content on the site means that no other product or service can meet the specified requirement.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 38430000 - Detection and analysis apparatus
• 48160000 - Library software package
• 48611000 - Database software package

Indicators

• Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

A Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency Notice (VEAT) was raised on 11/10/2022. It provided third parties with the opportunity to raise their objection to this contract being awarded without competition. No objection was received which allows the University to determine that the appropriate route to market for this requirement is an award without competition in accordance with the Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016, Regulation 6 – Circumstances in which a contract can be awarded without competition - (1) A contracting authority may award a public contract without seeking offers in relation to the proposed contract - b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons - (iii) the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights.

Other Information

(SC Ref:833494)