Non-profit Joint Stock Company “Kostanay Regional University named after Akhmet Baitursynuly,” in accordance with Clause 7 of the Rules on the procurement of goods, works, and services by research institutes and organizations of higher and/or postgraduate education necessary for conducting scientific research and studies funded by 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 research project IRN BR24992785 “Organization and Implementation of Comprehensive Research to Ensure the Sustainable Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex of Kostanay Region with the Establishment of a Scientific and Technological Research Center,” financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the period 2024–2026, announces a tender for the purchase of a service for conducting scientific research.
Contact details: +7 777 616 2244 – on technical specifications; +7 (7142) 51-11-05 – on procurement procedure.
Please submit commercial proposals by 11:00 on October 20, 2025, by email to: zakup@ksu.edu.kz or in person at: Kostanay, Baitursynov Street 47, office 314 (main building).
Technical characteristics of the purchased services:
Provision of information services for the organization of the publication of the articles:
- "International experience in conceptualizing and assessing land degradation";
- «Integrated AI-Based Vision System for Quality Inspection of Welded Structures in Agricultural Machinery Manufacturing»;
- "The intake of heavy metals and heavy natural radionuclides into the soils of agricultural lands as part of mineral phosphorous fertilizers: a literature review";
- "Nomenclature of soils of Kostanay region of the Republic of Kazakhstan in accordance with the International system of soil Classification";
- «Assessment of humus and nitrate content in soils and dynamics of their changes in the conditions of agricultural work in Kostanay region»;
- "Floristic features of the coastal zone of the lakes of the Altyn-Dala Nature Reserve".
in a journal indexed in the Scopus citation database with a percentile of at least 50 (Indexing of articles in the database: articles. Indexing is exactly like articles, not conference proceedings).
Scope of services: 6 articles
Service delivery period: the first half of 2026
The service price includes:
1) Article preparation services for publication
- choosing a journal and coordinating it with the author
- preliminary assessment of the article for compliance with the requirements of the selected publication, clarification of references to literature sources
2) Services for submitting articles to the journal
- translation of the text of the article into English
- consultation of the authors
- design of the text and literature sources of the article to meet the requirements of a particular journal
- preparation of accompanying documents and a personal account (if required by the editorial board of the journal)
- submission of the article to the editorial office - receiving comments on the review results and sending them to the authors for correction
- translating them into English (no more than 1,000 characters with spaces) and sending the corrected version of the article to the editor
- receiving new comments/preliminary approval of the article for publication in the journal
3) Services for monitoring the publication of articles in the journal
- interaction with the editorial board of the journal (there may be additional comments)
- payment of royalties to the publisher of the journal
- transfer of the layout and links to the published article on the journal's website.
The planned price for one item is 1 800 000 tenge.
The requirement for the company to participate in the procurement process:
- the organizational and legal form of the company is a Limited Liability Partnership.
- the type of economic activity (OKED) must correspond to one of the classes related to section 58.19 "Other types of publishing activities" or 18.12 "Other types of printing production".