Request help and support for your procurement
Use this service if you're a state-funded school in England and need free help with your school procurement.
Our team of procurement specialists can:
- offer advice and guidance to make sure you're buying compliantly at any point, even if your procurement process is already in progress
- review your documents to make sure they're complete and compliant. This includes advice on specification documents, tender documents and evaluation criteria
- support you on choosing or using a framework agreement for your procurement
- advise when you need to seek legal advice
Our specialists may also offer to help run more complex or high value procurements. Some of the reasons they may offer to do this are:
- when contracts are long term or multi-year
- you're buying for multiple schools
- the value is above the Procurement Act 2023 threshold
- the procurement requires inclusion of transferring personnel contracts under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE)
- you're new or not experienced in running these types of procurements
- there are problems with supply or prices change regularly, for example energy costs
- it's challenging to find suppliers
Tools and guidance
You can also:
- read information on finding the right route to buy what you need for your school
- read about what to consider for specific goods and services
- read about framework agreements
- create a specification for catering or multi-functional devices if you don't have one yet