Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-12-24
Buyer: National Library of Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 22314000 | 79530000 | 79800000 | 79810000 | 79820000
Estimated value: 94525.48 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Design, Editing, Production and Distribution Services for Discover Magazine, Other Library Publications and Associated Services
The National Library of Scotland ‘the Library’ requires a service provider to design, provide editorial services, production and distribution in the main for the Library Magazine ‘Discover’ and including other library literature as required including, but not exclusive to: the Library Annual Review and Library Brochure. All printed documents must be fully accessible and comply with Library Gaelic Language Plan. This will be a fully managed service, subcontracted as required and will comprise of, but not limited to the following:
Other corporate literature as required including but not exclusive to printed material related to upcoming major capital projects, Library centenary and a major fundraising campaign.
The Library requires a service provider to design, provide editorial services, production and distribution in the main for the Library Magazine ‘Discover’ and including other Library literature as required including, but not exclusive to, the Library Annual Review and Library Brochure. All printed documents must be fully accessible and comply with Library Gaelic Language Plan.
This will be a fully managed service, subcontracted as required and will comprise of, but not limited to the following
Other corporate literature as required including but not exclusive to printed material related to upcoming major capital projects, Library centenary and a major fundraising campaign.
It is anticipated that a contract will be awarded in late November 2020 to commence on 1 January 2021 and will run for a minimum of two (2) and maximum of five (5) years; extended year on year by mutual agreement, continued business need, budget availability and the supplier’s satisfactory performance.
— make adjustments to current brochure including images, small text adjustments and fully update public programmes pages;
— other corporate literature as required including but not exclusive to printed material related to upcoming major capital projects, Library centenary and a major fundraising campaign.
Actual services required for other corporate literature cannot be confirmed but is likely to include:
— material related to centenary planning – this could include a standalone publication similar to a magazine;
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulations 58 of Public Contract (Scotland) Regulations 2015
Award criteria can be found in the schedules to tender — quality (technical) response along with weightings issued with the ITT. Unless stated otherwise in the ITT and associated schedules to tender the award scoring methodology will be as follows.
0 = Unacceptable — Nil or inadequate response. Fails to demonstrate an ability to meet the requirement.
1 = Poor — Response is partially relevant but generally poor. The response addresses some elements of the requirement but contains insufficient/limited detail or explanation to demonstrate how the requirement will be fulfilled and or may be overly generic.


Winner: Connect Publications (Scotland) Ltd
Award value: 94525.48
Number of bids: 6