Examples of SUPC in a sentence
Before the SUPC tender, work had been under way by a group of universities (Anglia Ruskin, Bournemouth, Glasgow Caledonian and West of England) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), to define a core collection of nursing texts for use in higher education, based on the Libraries for Nursing/RCN core collection for nurses (the NCCI).
As with all SUPC tenders, the standard five stages of the procurement cycle were followed: identifying the need, preparing the specification, finding the supplier, awarding the contract, measuring and monitoring performance.
These two suppliers were felt to offer most to SUPC members in terms of innovative business models giving value for money; flexibility, offering those with differing requirements appropriate options; and exploiting the electronic medium in terms of granularity and multi-user access.Since the award of the tender, work has continued on the NCCI.
SUPC contracts with suppliers are worth over £100m ($187m) p.a.; the library contracts alone are worth £31m ($58m) p.a. The regional consortia have in the past concentrated on the procurement of hard-copy resources.Second there are two non-commercial organisations acting as agents for higher education in the UK.
Taking into account the average discounts available to SUPC members on both hard- copy and e-books, and assuming no difference between hard- copy and electronic list prices, the price of outright ownership of the e-book was a startling 82% more expensive than the hard-copy price.
All trash, such as packaging and extinguished cigarettes, must be deposited in appropriate receptacles.
Thanks to an earlier SUPC contract over 90% of hard-copy books are delivered completely shelf-ready.
The combination, of demonstrable hunger on the part of undergraduates for electronic texts, the increasing availability of e-books and the incipient need to integrate electronic resources into the VLE, led the member libraries of the SUPC in 2004 to investigate the possibility of a tender for the large-scale procurement of academic e-books, particularly textbooks.
The largest of these consortia is the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC), with 47 member institutions ranging from the very small to the very large.
The intermediary has about 6% of the purchase price on which to provide a service, make a profit and give something to purchasers like the SUPC.