"Your Education Technology" An Open Framework (PA 2023) for the provision of ICT products, services, and solutions.
- Buyer
- NEXUS MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Value
- £1,000,000,000
- Closes
- 11 November 2026
- Where
- Rotherham, Yorkshire and the Humber
- Type
- Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)
In plain English
Nexus Multi Academy Trust is setting up a large framework to supply ICT products, services and solutions to schools and colleges across the UK. They are looking for suppliers in three areas: managed IT support, professional IT services, and hardware. This is a framework agreement, meaning suppliers who win a place can be called on by schools to do work over the next 8 years.
What the buyer wants
• Provide managed ICT support services including helpdesk, network management, cybersecurity, backup and disaster recovery for schools • Deliver professional IT consultancy, digital transformation, system design and project management to education establishments • Supply hardware products and associated solutions to schools and colleges
Lots
- Lot 1 - ICT Support Services and Managed Services
- Lot 2 - Professional Services
- Lot 3 - Hardware
Likely requirements
Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.
This is a £1 billion framework open to large and small suppliers, but most sole traders and micro-businesses will struggle because they lack the scale, insurance, cybersecurity certifications, and track record needed to serve schools across multiple regions. You would need to be part of a larger organisation or bid as a subcontractor.
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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