Collection Development - Materials Contracts Award Winners

The NTRLS Board of Directors met today and approved the Collection Development Contracts recommended by the NTRLS Collection Development Committee. The Collection Development committee met on June 13th to select the winners of the 53 bids submitted. A big THANK YOU! Goes out to Vicki Kemp, Flower Mound Public Library, Katherine Boyer, Roanoke Public Library and Tina Hager, Little Elm Public Library for their work on this project. They spent over two days reading and scoring all of the proposals.

Here is a breakdown of how many bids we received for each RFP along with the name of the winning vendor, and a summary of available discounts. NTRLS will be releasing its 2008 Resource Allocation Manual in Mid-July. This manual will have all the contract details.

Print
Number of bids: 15
Winning Vendor: Brodart
Discounts
General Trade Books: 46.5%
Best Sellers: 46.5% Trade Hardcover 40.5% Paperback
Technical Books: 13%
Children’s Books in Publisher’s Library Binding: 27.5%
Mass Market Paperbacks: 40.5%
Pre-bound Books: 27.5%
Large Print Books: 46.5% Trade Hardcover, 40.5% Paperback



Word Language Print
Number of bids: 5
Winning Vendor: Brodart
General Trade Books: 40%
Best Sellers: 40% Trade Hardcover, 40% Paperback
Technical Books: 20%
Children Books in Publisher’s Library Binding: 20%
Mass Market Paperbacks: 40%
Pre-bound books: 20%
Large Print Books: 40% Trade Hardcover, 40% Paperback



Video
Number of bids: 10
Winning Vendor: Baker and Taylor
Popular/recreational programs on prerecorded DVDS: 28.7%
Educational/Instructional programs on prerecorded DVDs: 28.7%
Foreign Films: 28.7%


World Language Video
Number of bids: 5
Winning Vendor: Book Wholesalers (BWI)
Popular/recreational programs on prerecorded DVDS: 28%
Foreign Films: 15%


Sound
Number of bids: 9
Winning Vendor: Ingram Library Services, Inc

Educational and instructional programs on prerecorded audiocassettes and compact discs: Cassettes:45.8%
Compact Discs: 45.8%
Non-trade titles: 20%

Audiobooks on prerecorded audiocassettes and compact discs
Cassettes:45.8%
Compact Discs: 45.8%
Non-trade titles: 20%



World Language Sound
Number of bids: 6
Winning Vendor: Book Wholesalers (BWI)

Popular and classical music on prerecorded audiocassettes and compact discs:
Compact Discs: 28%

Educational and instructional programs on prerecorded audiocassettes and compact discs:
Compact Discs: 15%

Audiobooks on prerecorded audiocassettes and compact discs
Cassettes: 35%
Compact Discs: 35%


Periodicals
Number of bids: 2
Winning Vendor: Magazine Subscriptions PTP

General: 22%
Technical/Scientific: 22%
Children’s: 22%
Special: 22%


Leased Materials
Number of bids: 1
Winning Vendor: Brodart


Playaway
Winning Vendor: Findaway World
20% discount