The supply of spoken word and large print material to Hampshire's Library Service including - authors Richard Osman and Lee Child

Published

22 November 2023

Estimated value

£138,000

Place of performance

UKJ3

Lots

1

Notice number

034575-2023

Reference

ocds-h6vhtk-041c0b

Official source

Official source

CPV codes

• 22113000Library books

Description

Hampshire County Council Library Service (The Council) has a purchase contract with a publisher for the supply of alternative format books for our 40 branch libraries and Home Library Service. The contract is due to expire at the end of March 2024 with a new contract due to last for 4 years up to 31 March 2028. The estimated maximum value of the contract over a 4 year period based on current annual expenditure, although subject to change, is £137,059. The scope of the contract is for the competitive supply of books in large print for adults, audiobooks in CD and Playaway formats for adults and CD format for children. Coverage must include the publisher's new and backlist titles in library editions. New titles must be available to order in advance of publication and be supplied at the point of publication. The Council require a widespread choice to support in-house selection of bestsellers, contemporary fiction, genre fiction, non-fiction and children's titles. As an example for this contract, we would expect current and the back catalogue of works, in the formats specified above, by the following authors to be available for supply: Richard Osman (large print format) Lee Child…

Official publications

• FTS · 034575-2023 · 22 November 2023

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