HRB 2025 Open Research Publishing

The Health Research Board (hereinafter referred to as the “HRB”) is a statutory agency under the aegis of the Department of Health. The HRB’s mission is to support research that improves people's health, promotes evidence-informed care, and creates solutions to societal challenges. Our vison is ‘better health through excellent research, …

CPV: 79970000 Publishing services, 73110000 Research services, 73210000 Research consultancy services
áit fhorghníomhaithe:
HRB 2025 Open Research Publishing
clárlann:
The Health Research Board
uimhir dámhachtana:
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1. Buyer

1.1 Buyer

Official name : The Health Research Board
Legal type of the buyer : Body governed by public law
Activity of the contracting authority : Health

2. Procedure

2.1 Procedure

Title : HRB 2025 Open Research Publishing
Description : The Health Research Board (hereinafter referred to as the “HRB”) is a statutory agency under the aegis of the Department of Health. The HRB’s mission is to support research that improves people's health, promotes evidence-informed care, and creates solutions to societal challenges. Our vison is ‘better health through excellent research, data and evidence.’ An overview of the HRB’s objectives and activities may be found in The HRB Strategy 2021-2025, Health research - making an impact, ( https://www.hrb.ie/strategy-2025/). The HRB oversees an approximate €50 million investment in health research activity each year. There is a fundamental shift across Europe towards making the research process more transparent, collaborative, and efficient. This is reflected in the move to ‘open research/ open science’ promoted by the European Commission and other leading stakeholders. The way research is conducted is transitioning from publication of research results in scientific journals towards sharing and using all available knowledge at an earlier stage in the research process. The HRB aims to deliver optimal value and impact from its publicly funded research and proactively engages and supports its funded research community to work in a more open manner. The HRB is committed to full, immediate, and transparent Open Access (OA) to research outputs, aligned to best international standards. The HRB has mandated OA in its publicly funded peer-reviewed research awards since 2014, and since January 2025 moved to implement ‘full and immediate OA, compliant with the PlanS principles. The HRB now invites tenderers to submit a tender proposal to provide a service to maintain and develop the HRB Open Research open publishing platform for a further Phase 3 period beginning June 2025 and running for 2 years in the first instance with an option to extend by a further 12 months each year thereafter up to an upper term of 48 months. with a built-in review The successful tenderer will be required to: · Provide the underpinning publishing technology for HRB Open Research (2025-2029), customised to support the HRB branding requirements, and run the associated editorial and production processes to enable publication on the platform. The full publication process from submission to publication should comprise immediate publication, open peer-review, and post publication curation and preservation. This service should support researchers to openly publish all of their research outputs including articles, datasets, case reports, protocols, and null and negative results. · Provide an efficient, centralised financial system for the payment of APCs that involves directly invoicing the HRB. · Work jointly with the HRB on communications, on monitoring and evaluation aspects and on establishing HRB Open Research (2025-2029) as a service used by the full range of HRB researchers and as a key infrastructure within the wider Irish research system.
Procedure identifier : c0a82239-2bc7-4ba5-bc07-bffd5f3b9d35
Previous notice : be506555-fc34-49e1-a800-b83c22a939cb-01
Type of procedure : Open
The procedure is accelerated : no

2.1.1 Purpose

Main nature of the contract : Services
Main classification ( cpv ): 79970000 Publishing services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 73110000 Research services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 73210000 Research consultancy services

2.1.2 Place of performance

Town : Dublin
Postcode : D02 H638
Country subdivision (NUTS) : Dublin ( IE061 )
Country : Ireland

2.1.3 Value

Estimated value excluding VAT : 550 000 Euro

2.1.4 General information

Legal basis :
Directive 2014/24/EU

5. Lot

5.1 Lot technical ID : LOT-0001

Title : HRB 2025 Open Research Publishing
Description : The Health Research Board (hereinafter referred to as the “HRB”) is a statutory agency under the aegis of the Department of Health. The HRB’s mission is to support research that improves people's health, promotes evidence-informed care, and creates solutions to societal challenges. Our vison is ‘better health through excellent research, data and evidence.’ An overview of the HRB’s objectives and activities may be found in The HRB Strategy 2021-2025, Health research - making an impact, ( https://www.hrb.ie/strategy-2025/). The HRB oversees an approximate €50 million investment in health research activity each year. There is a fundamental shift across Europe towards making the research process more transparent, collaborative, and efficient. This is reflected in the move to ‘open research/ open science’ promoted by the European Commission and other leading stakeholders. The way research is conducted is transitioning from publication of research results in scientific journals towards sharing and using all available knowledge at an earlier stage in the research process. The HRB aims to deliver optimal value and impact from its publicly funded research and proactively engages and supports its funded research community to work in a more open manner. The HRB is committed to full, immediate, and transparent Open Access (OA) to research outputs, aligned to best international standards. The HRB has mandated OA in its publicly funded peer-reviewed research awards since 2014, and since January 2025 moved to implement ‘full and immediate OA, compliant with the PlanS principles. The HRB now invites tenderers to submit a tender proposal to provide a service to maintain and develop the HRB Open Research open publishing platform for a further Phase 3 period beginning June 2025 and running for 2 years in the first instance with an option to extend by a further 12 months each year thereafter up to an upper term of 48 months. with a built-in review The successful tenderer will be required to: · Provide the underpinning publishing technology for HRB Open Research (2025-2029), customised to support the HRB branding requirements, and run the associated editorial and production processes to enable publication on the platform. The full publication process from submission to publication should comprise immediate publication, open peer-review, and post publication curation and preservation. This service should support researchers to openly publish all of their research outputs including articles, datasets, case reports, protocols, and null and negative results. · Provide an efficient, centralised financial system for the payment of APCs that involves directly invoicing the HRB. · Work jointly with the HRB on communications, on monitoring and evaluation aspects and on establishing HRB Open Research (2025-2029) as a service used by the full range of HRB researchers and as a key infrastructure within the wider Irish research system.
Internal identifier : 0

5.1.1 Purpose

Main nature of the contract : Services
Main classification ( cpv ): 79970000 Publishing services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 73110000 Research services
Additional classification ( cpv ): 73210000 Research consultancy services

5.1.2 Place of performance

Town : Dublin
Country subdivision (NUTS) : Dublin ( IE061 )
Country : Ireland
Additional information :

5.1.3 Estimated duration

Duration : 48 Month

5.1.5 Value

Estimated value excluding VAT : 550 000 Euro

5.1.6 General information

Procurement Project not financed with EU Funds.
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) : yes

5.1.7 Strategic procurement

Aim of strategic procurement : No strategic procurement

5.1.10 Award criteria

Criterion :
Type : Cost
Description : Cost
Category of award threshold criterion : Weight (points, exact)
Award criterion number : 2 000
Criterion :
Type : Quality
Name : As per published tender
Description : As per published tender
Category of award threshold criterion : Weight (points, exact)
Award criterion number : 8 000

5.1.15 Techniques

Framework agreement :
No framework agreement
Information about the dynamic purchasing system :
No dynamic purchase system

5.1.16 Further information, mediation and review

Review organisation : The High Court of Ireland
Organisation providing offline access to the procurement documents : The Health Research Board
Organisation providing more information on the review procedures : The High Court of Ireland
Organisation signing the contract : The Health Research Board

6. Results

Value of all contracts awarded in this notice : 550 000 Euro

6.1 Result lot ldentifier : LOT-0001

At least one winner was chosen.

6.1.2 Information about winners

Winner :
Official name : F1000 Research Ltd
Tender :
Tender identifier : 000100497
Identifier of lot or group of lots : LOT-0001
Value of the tender : 550 000 Euro
The tender was ranked : yes
The tender is a variant : no
Subcontracting : No
Contract information :
Identifier of the contract : 422135
Date on which the winner was chosen : 09/05/2025
Date of the conclusion of the contract : 10/06/2025
Organisation signing the contract : The Health Research Board

6.1.4 Statistical information

Received tenders or requests to participate :
Type of received submissions : Tenders
Number of tenders or requests to participate received : 1

8. Organisations

8.1 ORG-0001

Official name : The Health Research Board
Registration number : IE4820764P
Postal address : 67-72 Lower Mount Street,
Town : Dublin
Postcode : DO2 H638
Country subdivision (NUTS) : Dublin ( IE061 )
Country : Ireland
Telephone : 35312345000
Internet address : https://www.hrb.ie/
Buyer profile : https://www.hrb.ie/
Roles of this organisation :
Buyer
Organisation providing offline access to the procurement documents
Organisation signing the contract

8.1 ORG-0002

Official name : F1000 Research Ltd
Size of the economic operator : Medium
Registration number : 08322928
Postal address : 5 Howick Place
Town : London
Postcode : SW1P 1WG
Country : United Kingdom
Telephone : +44 (0) 20 805 20500
Roles of this organisation :
Tenderer
Winner of these lots : LOT-0001

8.1 ORG-0003

Official name : The High Court of Ireland
Registration number : The High Court of Ireland
Department : The High Court of Ireland
Postal address : Four Courts, Inns Quay, Dublin 7
Town : Dublin
Postcode : D07 WDX8
Country subdivision (NUTS) : Dublin ( IE061 )
Country : Ireland
Telephone : +353 1 8886000
Roles of this organisation :
Review organisation
Organisation providing more information on the review procedures

8.1 ORG-0004

Official name : European Dynamics S.A.
Registration number : 002024901000
Department : European Dynamics S.A.
Town : Athens
Postcode : 15125
Country subdivision (NUTS) : Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών ( EL301 )
Country : Greece
Telephone : +30 2108094500
Roles of this organisation :
TED eSender

Notice information

Notice identifier/version : 0d7ec263-3954-4bdd-a41a-acd260e493e9 - 01
Form type : Result
Notice type : Contract or concession award notice – standard regime
Notice dispatch date : 25/07/2025 15:11 +01:00
Languages in which this notice is officially available : English
Notice publication number : 00493763-2025
OJ S issue number : 143/2025
Publication date : 29/07/2025