Public contract award · eTenders 179439
- Framework agreement
- 8 suppliers share it
BDB090F - Multi Supplier Framework for the Provision of Library Databases for HSE Libraries
Education Procurement Service (EPS) awarded this contract to Clarivate Analytics (UK) Limited, EBSCO International Inc., IBM, MA Healthcare Ltd., Ovid Technologies B.V., ProQuest LLC, Royal Pharmaceutical Society and UpToDate, Inc. on 21 February 2021, using an open procedure, and 8 bids were received. The notice publishes €6,816,000 as a ceiling for everything that may be bought under this framework, not as money spent. It names 8 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them; each supplier's share is not published. The published term is 12 months, to Feb 2022.
- Award published
- Term ends
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Who awarded it, and to whom
- Supplier namedClarivate Analytics (UK) LimitedNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedEBSCO International Inc.Not matched to a company record
- Supplier namedIBMNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedMA Healthcare Ltd.Not matched to a company record
- Supplier namedOvid Technologies B.V.Not matched to a company record
- Supplier namedProQuest LLCNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedRoyal Pharmaceutical SocietyNot matched to a company record
- Supplier namedUpToDate, Inc.Not matched to a company record
The notice names 8 suppliers and publishes one value for all of them. Each supplier’s share is not published.
How long does it run?
A published term of 1 year, to Feb 2022.
The term is the notice’s duration counted from the award date. A contract may be extended or end early; the notices do not say.
What the notice says
- Procedure
- Open ProcedureAny business could bid.
- Competition type
- FrameworkA framework agreement: suppliers approved for repeat purchases, with a value that is a ceiling.
- Bids received
- 8Bids the buyer received from businesses.
- eTenders tender ID
- 179439eTenders' own page for a tender needs a free supplier login, so this record links to the OGP open data on data.gov.ie instead.
- TED notice
- 095713-2021 (opens in a new tab)Opens the official notice on TED, the EU's public tenders site.
Check it yourself
The official record this page is built from.
- eTenders awards dataset (OGP, data.gov.ie) (opens in a new tab)One file for every eTenders award: look for tender ID 179439. eTenders' own tender pages need a login.
Cite this record
"BDB090F - Multi Supplier Framework for the Provision of Library Databases for HSE Libraries", contract award record on Declared (declared.ie), compiled from OGP open data row · tender 179439. https://declared.ie/contracts/ogp-179439-49440/bdb090f-multi-supplier-framework-for-the-provision-of. Data refreshed 12 October 2026.
Published records, not allegations. An award shows who a public body chose to buy from, as it published; it is not a payment and says nothing about how the supplier was chosen beyond what the notice states.