Exercise Books and Paper Products Partnership

Buyer
Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation
Value
£144,000,000
Closes
16 November 2026
Where
Wakefield
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation is looking for a supplier to establish a long-term strategic partnership to provide exercise books and other paper products to the public sector. This is a very large, multi-year framework contract worth around £144 million.

What the buyer wants

• Supply exercise books and paper products to public sector organisations (schools, councils, NHS trusts, etc.) under a framework agreement • Develop and expand the product range beyond exercise books as the partnership progresses • Meet demand across multiple public sector buyers who will place individual orders against the framework

Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

This contract is almost certainly not viable for small businesses: it requires supplying millions of units per year across the entire UK public sector, demands major manufacturing or distribution capacity, and involves complex multi-buyer framework management that is only realistic for established national suppliers.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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