Who won: CORE development services 2026

A public sector contract from THE OPEN UNIVERSITY. Below: what it involves and how to write a winning bid for it.

Buyer

THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

Published

1 July 2026

Region

UKJ12

About this contract

Service development capacity, in the form of software development and associated activities, to support the CORE project: CORE hosts the world's largest collection of open access research outputs, which are used and referenced by people globally, including researchers, libraries, software developers, funders.

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