19/05/2008
Suppliers Sought for New Educational Software Licensing Framework
OGCbuying.solutions is collaborating with Becta, the Government's lead agency for Informat
ion and Communications Technology (ICT) in education, to establish a new framework agreement for educational software licensing.
The new agreement will give educational establishments an attractive route to obtain software licences through simple, cost-effective arrangements.
It will offer a broad range of commercial, off-the-shelf software and licences, together with a range of value-adding support services, for example, sourcing, installation technical support and licence management.
The new framework agreement will cover the supply of software for specific activities such as word processing and image handling.
It will not cover software that has been created to deliver the national curriculum, learning environments or Management Information Systems.
These new arrangements will replace the current framework managed by Becta which expires in October 2008. More than £46 million has been spent through this existing framework since it was set up in 2005, delivering £22 million of savings.
The new agreement will be let for four years and is expected to attract spend of approximately £80 million.
A contract notice was published in Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) on 6 May 2008, under reference 2008/S 87-118625.
Full details of how to participate are included in the notice. The deadline for pre-qualification questionnaires is 5 June 2008.
Any enquiries relating to the procurement should be directed to educationsoftware@ogcbs.gsi.gov.uk.