Non-profit limited company «Akhmet Baitursynuly Kostanay Regional University», in accordance with Clause 7 of the Rules for the procurement of goods, works, and services necessary for the implementation of scientific research by research institutes and higher and/or postgraduate education organizations at the expense of budgetary funds, 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 AR19680147 «Impact of fires and analysis of methods for restoring the forest ecosystem of the Amankaragai pine forest in the northern region of the Republic of Kazakhstan», announces a tender for the procurement of research services.
Contact details: +7 (701) 319-92-28 – on technical specifications; +7 (7142) 51-11-05 – on procurement procedures.
Commercial offers must be submitted by 10:00 a.m. on October 3, 2025 to the email: zakup@ksu.edu.kz or to the address: Kostanay, 47 Baitursynov Street, office 314 (main building).
Technical specifications of the procured services:
Provision of information services for organizing the publication of the article «Research on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles and machine learning for assessing green biomass and undergrowth in the Amankaragai pine forest» in a journal indexed in the Scopus citation database with a percentile of at least 50 (indexing as articles only, not conference proceedings).
Scope of services: One article
Service completion deadline: October 31, 2025.
The service cost includes:
1) Services for preparing the article for publication:
- selection of the journal and agreement with the author
- preliminary evaluation of the article for compliance with the requirements of the selected journal, refinement of references
2) Services for submitting the article to the journal:
- translation of the article into English
- consulting the authors
- formatting the text and references according to journal requirements
- preparation of supporting documents and personal account (if required by the journal)
- submission of the article to the editorial board
- receiving reviewer comments and forwarding them to the authors for revision
- translation of comments into English (up to 1000 characters with spaces) and forwarding the revised version to the editor
- receiving new comments / preliminary approval of the article for publication
3) Services for monitoring the publication of the article:
- interaction with the journal’s editorial board (possible additional comments)
- payment of author fees to the journal publisher
- submission of the final layout and link to the published article on the journal’s website
Planned price: 2,300,000 KZT.