The Non-profit limited company «Akhmet Baitursynuly Kostanay Regional University», in accordance with paragraph 7 of the Rules for the acquisition by research institutes and organizations of higher and/or postgraduate education of goods, works, and services necessary for the implementation of scientific research and scientific works funded from the state budget, approved by the Order of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated November 26, 2024 No. 538, within the framework of the scientific project BR21881993 «Development of an operational monitoring system for water resources and environmental control of hydraulic engineering structures in Northern Kazakhstan», announces a competition for the procurement of services for conducting scientific research.
Contact details: +7 (701) 319-92-28 – on technical specifications; +7 (7142) 51 11 05 – on procurement procedure.
Commercial proposals are requested to be sent no later than 10:00 a.m. on October 3, 2025, to the email address: zakup@ksu.edu.kz or to the address: Kostanay, Baitursynov street, 47, office 314 (main building).
Technical specifications of the procured services:
Provision of information services for organizing the placement of the article «Comprehensive analysis of the impact of climatic conditions on extremely low water discharges in the steppe basins of Kazakhstan» in a journal indexed in the Scopus citation database with a percentile of not less than 50 (Indexation in the database: articles. Specifically indexed as articles, not conference proceedings).
Scope of services: One article
Deadline for service delivery: October 31, 2025.
The cost of the service includes:
1) Services for preparing the article for publication:
- selection of the journal and its approval with the author
- preliminary evaluation of the article for compliance with the requirements of the chosen journal, verification and adjustment of literature references
2) Services for submitting the article to the journal:
- translation of the article text into English
- consultation with the authors
- formatting of the text and literature references according to the requirements of the specific journal
- preparation of supporting documents and personal account (if required by the journal’s editorial board)
- submission of the article to the editorial board
- receipt of comments following peer review and forwarding them to the authors for revision
- translation of corrections into English (up to 1000 characters with spaces) and submission of the revised version to the editor
- receipt of new comments/preliminary approval of the article for publication in the journal
3) Services for monitoring the publication of the article in the journal:
- interaction with the journal’s editorial board (there may be additional comments)
- payment of author fees to the journal publisher
- delivery of the final layout and the link to the published article on the journal’s website
Estimated cost: 2,300,000 KZT.