RFP QuestBeta
OpenStage · planning

Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited

Software Licenses for Schools and Academies

Software & IT SystemsCPV 48422000
Value£12.0m
Deadline
Published24 Oct 2025
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
Rezia Begum
r.begum@thecpc.ac.uk
0161 974 0954

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Contract value in context
£12.0mtotal contract value
median £91k
this tender£0£13.0m

This is a large award for Software & IT Systems — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 30,286 valued Software & IT Systems tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

This is an information gathering exercise named Preliminary Market Engagement.

The purpose of this exercise is to gather information from suppliers who provide Software Licenses & Associated Services for Academies and Schools, outlined within the document available on Multiquote, to assist in forming the framework to meet the members requirement.

We are looking to review the lot structure of the framework and engage with potential suppliers to create a proposed basket of goods to meet our varying member’s needs.

Following this, we aim to go out to tender, to form a framework that offers Software Licenses & Associated Services for Academies and Schools to the education sector Please complete the questionnaire along with the Preliminary Market Engagement Declaration.

Details are available via MultiQuote: https://suppliers.multiquote.com.

MultiQuote reference CA16627 Any resulting framework from this exercise will be available to Further Education Institutions, Universities, Sixth Forms, Academies, Schools, Museums and other similar organisations who are CPC Members (https://www.thecpc.ac.uk/members/regions.php) and all CPC future members (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/get-information-about-schools).

Local Authorities may also wish to use the resulting framework when procuring on behalf of Educational Establishments.

If you wish to be involved in this Preliminary Market Engagement, please complete the questionnaire and sign and return the embedded Preliminary Market Declaration document by 11.59pm on 20th November 2025.

MultiQuote reference CA16627

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The purpose of this exercise is

The purpose of this exercise is to gather information from suppliers who provide Software Licenses & Associated Services for Academies and Schools, outlined within the document available on Multiquote, to assist in forming the framework to meet the members requirement.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d39d
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
068300-2025
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