Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO
236_27 Matting
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The submission route named on the official notice.
This is a large award for Furniture & Furnishings — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 5,729 valued Furniture & Furnishings tenders in our corpus.
Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO publishes Furniture & Furnishings work continuously — 12 notices, roughly one every 1 day. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.
81% of Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.
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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 matting (resale is via the ESPO catalogues).
Goods are for direct delivery to ESPO customers.
The Framework is divided into 3 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 10 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 236_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 matting (resale is via the ESPO catalogues).
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.
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- OCID
- ocds-h6vhtk-069377
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Buyer ref
- 076022-2026
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