01 Procurement
Tender overview
- Buyer
- Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
- Status
- Complete
- Procurement method
- Below threshold - without competition
- Category
- Not supplied
- CPV classification
- Not supplied
- Tender period
- Not supplied — Not supplied
Description
This contract is a direct award under Schedule 5, Paragraph 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 (intellectual property rights or other exclusive rights). The requirement is for continued access by UK Space Agency to the proprietary Researchfish Explorer platform, owned and supplied exclusively by Elsevier B.V.. The subscription provides access to grant outcome data to support the monitoring and analysis of research and innovation outcomes arising from funded activities. As the intellectual property, software and access rights are controlled by Elsevier B.V., competition is absent because the requirement can only be supplied by the holder of the relevant exclusive rights.
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02 Awards and contracts
Published award records
Researchfish Explorer Subscription 2026–2027
- Awarded
- Not supplied
- Award value
- Not supplied
- Suppliers
- 1
- Signed contract
- 7 October 2026
03 Organisations
Buyers, suppliers and other parties
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
22 Whitehall, London, UKI32, SW1A 2EG, United Kingdom
GB-PPON PVWZ-3216-PVQLElsevier B.V.
Radarweg 29, Amsterdam, NL, 1043 NX, Netherlands
GB-PPON PGGM-7148-RLWMCompanies House links appear only for explicit GB-COH identifiers. BritDB does not create company links from a similar name or address.
04 Provenance
Source for this process
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