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UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI Notice of Proposed Sole Source Purchase #ITSS 506

Description: Commodity or commodities to be purchased (manufacturer, model, description): IBM SPSS Desktop Premium The need to be fulfilled by this item(s) and why it is the only one that can meet the specific needs of the department: This is a renewal of the University of Mississippi's Campus Value license for SPSS Desktop Premium. It includes support for all versions of both programs, and for all the constituent packages of SPSS, across all common OS platforms. SPSS is a statistical analysis software package used most commonly in social sciences. At UM, it is used by many departments for both academic research and classroom instruction. SPSS has a much more usable interface than R or SAS while having much more analytical power than, eg, Excel. This makes it ideal for many applications, and it has become a standard tool in many areas of, eg, social sciences. Instructors teach the use of this program because graduates will need to use it once they leave UM. Name of company/individual selling the item and why that source is the only possible source that can provide the required item(s): IBM is the publisher of SPSS and the only entity that sells the Campus Value license for this set of programs. Why the amount to be expended for the commodity is reasonable: The IBM quotation provides a 12-month combined campus subscription price of $46,676.60, consisting of $39,253.30 for Statistics Premium and $7,423.30 for Amos (102 quoted Campus Value Units each). Campus Licensing supports university-wide academic use under the applicable license terms rather than purchasing separate individual subscriptions. Efforts that the agency went through to obtain the best possible price: We have a longstanding relationship with IBM that allows us to secure this license annually with controlled pricing growth. As described above, this license package is very inexpensive relative to the purchase of any other license.

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HigherEducation · MS, US
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Closes: Nov 23, 2026(12 days left)

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