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Teaching and Learning Resources (including Assessment Materials)

the Education Authority

Awarded
goods
Framework agreement
Northern Ireland
4 lots

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Key details

Contracting authority
the Education Authority
Public authority - central government
Region
Belfast
Contract value
£4,000,000 - £12,000,000ex VAT
Submissions closed
Not stated by buyer
Published
2 December 2025

Procurement

Contract period
1 November 2025 - 2 December 2029
~4 years (est.)
Procedure type
Open procedure
CPV classifications
  • 22100000 Printed books, brochures and leaflets

What happened

the Education Authority awarded this contract to HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LIMITED | RED BOX BOOKS LIMITED | SHULPH LIMITED | CJ Fallon | HEATH BOOKS LTD | HODDER & STOUGHTON LIMITED | PEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED | Oxford University Press | PRIMED PUBLISHING LTD | RENAISSANCE LEARNING UK LIMITED | SCHOLASTIC LIMITED | Speech Link Multimedia Ltd | CLASSOOS UK LIMITED | COLOURPOINT CREATIVE LIMITED | FINDEL EDUCATION LIMITED | THE WEATHERBIES LIMITED worth £4,000,000 on 31 Oct 2025. The contract runs until 2 Dec 2029.

Description

The Education Authority (EA) invited tenders for the supply and delivery of Teaching and Learning Resources (including Assessment Materials) to individual schools and EA locations within Northern Ireland for a period of 4 years. This framework agreement is let by the Northern Ireland Education Authority ("EA") and is open to the EA, including NI educational bodies as follows and at some point, during the life of the framework

agreement these bodies may wish to utilize the agreement and should have access, at any point, with the permission of EA. This framework agreement is not intended to replace any current contracts/framework agreements that participating or non-participating institutions may already have in place. https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/services/schoolsplus

Primary and Post Primary schools under the control of the EA, Catholic Maintained Schools, Independent Schools in NI, Irish Medium Schools in NI, both Controlled and Voluntary Grammar Schools, Nursery School for NI (both controlled and Catholic

Maintained), school meals kitchens on-site at all of these schools, and Controlled Youth Centre's. https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/further-education-fe-colleges Further Education Colleges in NI, https://www.nicie.org/parents/school-finder/ Grant Controlled

Integrated Education Schools in NI, https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/northern-ireland/

Independent School in NI, Libraries NI: https://www.librariesni.org.uk/Libraries/, EA

Teachers' and Educational Centre's, Council for the Curriculum, Examination and Assessment NI (CCEA), Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, Middletown Centre for Autism, Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC), Northern Ireland Council for

Integrated Education (NICIE), Pre-Schools and Nurseries included within the EA's Pre- School Education Programme (PSEP)

Awarded suppliers (16)

Suppliers
  • HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LIMITED
  • RED BOX BOOKS LIMITED
  • SHULPH LIMITED
  • CJ Fallon
  • HEATH BOOKS LTD
  • HODDER & STOUGHTON LIMITED
  • PEARSON EDUCATION LIMITED
  • Oxford University Press
  • PRIMED PUBLISHING LTD
  • RENAISSANCE LEARNING UK LIMITED
  • SCHOLASTIC LIMITED
  • Speech Link Multimedia Ltd
  • CLASSOOS UK LIMITED
  • COLOURPOINT CREATIVE LIMITED
  • FINDEL EDUCATION LIMITED
  • THE WEATHERBIES LIMITED
Companies House: SC027389
Award value
£4,000,000
Award date
31 October 2025

Contact

Address
40 Academy Street, Belfast, BT1 2NQ

Identifiers

Buyer reference
EDR-24-010
Notice ID
078944-2025
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-054f6b

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