Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO
199_27 Design and Technology Materials and Equipment
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The submission route named on the official notice.
This is a large award for Agriculture & Farming Products — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 1,611 valued Agriculture & Farming Products tenders in our corpus.
Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO has published 86 notices across all categories, and 81% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.
Which is the argument for getting on the list rather than winning this one. The incumbent is rarely the last winner — it is the roster. See the retention odds by category →
ESPO is a trading department of Leicestershire County Council.
It is a non-profit making body owned and operated jointly by six local authorities.
We provide a catalogue range, providing our customers with access to over 28,000 products that cover all key areas of education and wider public sector requirements.
We are establishing a catalogue framework for the supply of D&T materials and equipment for use in education settings, with goods to be delivered either to ESPO's distribution centre, Leicester, or for direct delivery to ESPO customer premises.
The Framework is divided into 2 lots.
Please refer to the tender documents for any further details (including further details on each of the lots) - the closing date for submission of Tenders is 12:00 (12 noon / 12pm) on 04 September 2026.
To tender (please proceed to step (e) if an expression of interest has already been completed): (a) Go to https://www.eastmidstenders.org/ (b) Register (if not already registered on ProContract); (c) Search for tender opportunity 199_27 (via "View Opportunities" from the EastMidsTenders Portal); (d) Express an interest; (e) Download the tender documents (from the ProContract Activity summary screen).
Any questions or clarifications relating to this tender opportunity should be submitted to ESPO as a message on the eProcurement Portal, once an Expression of interest has been completed.
What the notice asks for
We provide a catalogue range, providing our
We provide a catalogue range, providing our customers with access to over 28,000 products that cover all key areas of education and wider public sector requirements.
We are establishing a catalogue framework
We are establishing a catalogue framework for the supply of D&T materials and equipment for use in education settings, with goods to be delivered either to ESPO's distribution centre, Leicester, or for direct delivery to ESPO customer premises.
Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.
What this notice demands of you
1 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.
Delivery shall be to ESPO’s distribution centre in Leicester, and for delivery directly to ESPO’s customers throughout the UK.
Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.
Make the case to bid
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- ocds-h6vhtk-0510da
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- tender · Open
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- 074312-2026
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