EDR-24-001 Classroom Resources · UK public procurement notice

Authority: the Education Authority (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

Framework agreement7 lotsGoodsOpen procedureSME suitableMax 7 lots to bid

Sectors: Mining, basic metals and related products (14)Printed matter and related products (22)Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages (30)

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Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories (37)Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products (39)Industrial machinery (42)Construction Materials & Prefab (44)

Delivery: Northern Ireland (UKN)

Framework ceiling (notional)£86,916,512total for 7 lots · framework ceiling, not attributable revenue · 1 value update

Submissions closed 28 Oct 2024awarded 6 Jan 2025

Lots 7max 7 to bid

What is being bought7 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

The Education Authority (EA) invites tenders for the supply and delivery of Classroom Resources to individual schools and EA locations within Northern Ireland for a period of 4 years. This framework agreement is let by the Northern Ireland Education Authority (“EA”) and is open to the EA, including NI educational bodies as follows and at some point, during the life of the framework agreement these bodies may wish to utilize the agreement and should have access, at any point, with the permission of EA. This framework agreement is not intended to replace any current contracts/framework agreements that participating or non-participating institutions may already have in place. www.education-ni.gov.uk/services/schools-plus ↗ Primary and Post Primary schools under the control of the EA, Catholic Maintained Schools, Independent Schools in NI, Irish Medium Schools in NI, both Controlled and Voluntary Grammar Schools, Nursery School for NI (both controlled and Catholic Maintained), school meals kitchens on-site at all of these schools, and Controlled Youth Centre's. www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/further-edu… ↗ Further Education Colleges in NI, www.nicie.org/parents/school-finder/ ↗ Grant Controlled Integrated Education Schools in NI, www.isc.co.uk/schools/northern-ire… ↗ Independent School in NI, Libraries NI: www.librariesni.org.uk/Libraries/ ↗, EA Teachers’ and Educational Centre's, Council for the Curriculum, Examination and Assessment NI (CCEA), Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, Middletown Centre for Autism, Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC), Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE), Pre-Schools and Nurseries included within the EA's Pre-School Education Programme (PSEP).

CPV: Art and craft paper · Art supplies · Artists' brushes · Artists' paints · Board games · Ceramics · Chalks · Classic games · Clay · Clipboards · Collaborative games · Crayons · +46 more

How this framework works

From the published notice

Places: up to 20 suppliers · 18 bids on the busiest of 7 lots (0.9 per place) · 17 appointed

Lots and requirements (7)Procurement structure

7 lots · all with a published value · a supplier may bid for at most 7 of them

Every one of these 7 lots carries the same published figure, £12,416,644: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.

Lot #1Copier PaperAwardedceiling above