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The supply of spoken word and large print material to Hampshire's Library Service including - authors Richard Osman and Lee Child

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Hampshire County Council Library Service (The Council) has a purchase contract with a publisher for the supply of alternative format books for our 40 branch libraries and Home Library Service.The contract is due to expire at the end of March 2024 with a new contract due to last for 4 years up to 31 March 2028. The estimated maximum value of the contract over a 4 year period based on current annual expenditure, although subject to change, is £137,059.The scope of the contract is for the competitive supply of books in large print for adults, audiobooks in CD and Playaway formats for adults and CD format for children. Coverage must include the publisher's new and backlist titles in library editions. New titles must be available to order in advance of publication and be supplied at the point of publication. The Council require a widespread choice to support in-house selection of bestsellers, contemporary fiction, genre fiction, non-fiction and children's titles. As an example for this contract, we would expect current and the back catalogue of works, in the formats specified above, by the following authors to be available for supply:Richard Osman (large print format)Lee Child (large print format)Ann Cleeves (large print format)Sally Rooney (large print format)Mills & Boon (large print format)The Council wants to identify from the market if any potential suppliers have the publishers rights to supply the books and audiobooks in the formats specified. The Council is looking to undertake a quotation exercise with suppliers that can demonstrate they can supply the identified authors in the formats requested.

Timeline

Pretender :

Not Identified

Published Date :

24th Nov 2023 1 year ago

Deadline :

24th Nov 2024 3 months ago

Contract Start :

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Contract End :

N/A

Tender Regions

CPV Codes

22113000 - Library books

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Details

Notice Type :

Open opportunity

Tender Identifier :

IT-378-246-T: 2024 - 001

TenderBase ID :

310724019

Low Value :

£100K

High Value :

£1000K

Region :

North Region

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Buyer Information

Address :

Liverpool Merseyside , Merseyside , L13 0BQ

Website :

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Procurement Contact

Name :

Tina Smith

Designation :

Chief Executive Officer

Phone :

0151 252 3243

Email :

tina.smith@shared-ed.ac.uk

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