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About our service

Get help buying for schools is a free Department for Education service for schools and trusts in England. We offer impartial procurement advice to help you buy goods and services compliantly.

We’ve already helped over 5000 schools and trusts

We aim to help you:

  • get good value for money
  • save time
  • buy compliantly

We are impartial and take no payments or commissions from our DfE-approved solutions.

Our only incentive is to help you buy what you need for your school.

Read about Ella Jones’s experience of buying cleaning for her trust.

Quickly find what you need

Our DfE-approved buying solutions are all compliant so you can use them to buy what you need.

You can make small purchases through catalogue.

Webinars and events

We run a series of free webinars during the academic year.

They are designed to highlight DfE-approved routes to market to buy a wide range of goods and services.

These live webinars explain the buying process in a clear and easy-to-understand way, and offer the opportunity to ask questions or seek further advice and support.

Sign up for our webinars and events.

If you need more help

Our procurement experts offer support for schools that have:

  • complex buying requirements, for example a multi-school catering contract
  • resourcing limitations, for example in a small schools with few staff

Watch the Get help buying for schools video

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