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Software Licenses for Schools and Academies

Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited

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Key details

Contracting authority
Region
Salford
Delivery: United Kingdom, United Kingdom
Contract value
£12,000,000ex VAT
£14,400,000 inc VAT
Deadline
20 November 2025
Published
24 October 2025

Procurement

Contract period
15 July 2026 - 14 July 2028
2 years
Possible extension to 15 July 2030 · 4 years in total
CPV classifications
  • 48422000 Software package suites

What happened

The contract runs until 14 Jul 2028.

Description

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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Procurement House, Leslie Hough Way, Salford, M6 6AJ
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Identifiers

Buyer reference
CA16627
Notice ID
068300-2025
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d39d

External ID: fts-ocds-h6vhtk-05d39d • Added 6 August 2026