Supply of Serials, Periodicals and Associated Services

London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC), a company limited by guarantee reg. no. 04784719, is a not-for-profit company owned by its Members, for its Members. Its primary purpose is to maximise value from the collaborative procurement of goods and services for over 65 Members, made up of universities and colleges, as well as government agencies, research organisations (including the UK Research Councils) and museums and other cultural establishments.

A full list of current Members may be found at: http://www.lupc.ac.uk/about/members-list.aspx. LUPC is establishing a Framework Agreement for the Supply of Serials, Periodicals and Associated Services that will be accessible both by its own Member Institutions and also the Member Institutions of the North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC) including those Institutions which are also Members of the North West Academic Libraries Consortium (NoWAL).

A full list of current members of NWUPC may be found at: http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members. A full list of NoWAL Members may be found at: http://www.nowal.ac.uk/member-libraries/.

Any other consortium or institution that wishes to participate in this Framework Agreement will only do so at the discretion of the LUPC. Suppliers’ attention is drawn to the fact that participating institutions may be subject to change in the future owing to strategic realignment of the above-named Consortia or the inclusion of new full or associate Members, who could be within the education sector or outside the education sector, but within the public sector.

By the term “serial” or “periodical”, LUPC intends the following: “A foreign or domestic publication in any medium, issued in successive parts bearing numerical or chronological designations and intended to be continued indefinitely. This includes: current and back issues of periodicals; newspapers and annuals (annual conference proceedings, reports, yearbooks, etc); the journals, memoirs, proceedings, transactions and other similar publications of societies; numbered monographic series; standing orders; and databases.

These are typically charged on a prepaid, usually annual, subscription basis.” The scope of the Framework Agreement will cover publications in serial form, both print and electronic, as well as some associated services. The Framework Agreement will be awarded for an initial term of two (2) years with an option to extend for two (2) further periods of twelve (12) months.

The extension(s) will be exercised at the discretion of the Authority. Electronic ordering and/or electronic invoicing and/or electronic payment may be used during the period of the Framework Agreement and throughout the lifespan of any Call-Off Contracts.