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Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO

236_27 Matting

Furniture & FurnishingsCPV 39530000
Value£1.4m
Deadline10 Sept 2026
Published11 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 11 Aug 2026ClosedCloses 10 Sept 2026
Who to contact
Catalogue Procurement Team
tenders@espo.org

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

Refer to all instructions captured via https://www.eastmidstenders.org/

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£1.4mtotal contract value
median £101k
this tender£0£3.5m

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.

When this comes round again

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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The brief

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.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

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.

02

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.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named in obligation language, 0 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.

ESPO / YPO / NEPOsays mustFrameworks & routes to market
Delivery shall be to ESPO’s distribution centre in Leicester, and for delivery directly to ESPO’s customers throughout the UK.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069377
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
076022-2026
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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