Our procurement policy - draft

Procurement policy for non–journal agreements

In order to improve the efficiency, consistency, and transparency of the licensing process for agreements for non–journal online resources, we introduced a new process for the receipt of proposals from providers of online content.

This Request for Proposals (RFP) defines our criteria for new agreements across a range of format types: reference works, bibliographic databases, e–books, multimedia, stand–alone databases, and aggregated full–text databases. Please note that the agreements arising from the Request for Proposals are for individual institutions to opt in and pay, rather than any national agreements paid for by us. This request for proposals takes the form of an OJEU framework agreement tender detailing the expectations and criteria that we would expect content and service providers to meet in order to have a JISC Collections agreement.

The process encourages the widespread adoption and implementation of the standards required and demanded by our community - for example Federated Access Management, unlimited simultaneous users, and compliance with an appropriate JISC Collections Model Licence.

The proposals are marked by members of the JISC Community, and any agreements that have been selected and licensed via this process are made available in our Catalogue.

How publishers and content providers can become involved in the Request for Proposals process

Please subscribe to our publisher email list to make sure you receive notification of when we issue our Request for Proposals. We also use this email list to post other important news and information that will be of interest to the publishing community.

Procurement policy for journal agreements

We manage the negotiation and licensing for online journals through our NESLi2 initiative.