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YPO

YPO - 001021 School Uniform

Clothing & TextilesCPV 18130000
Value£15.0m
Deadline23 Feb 2029
Published10 Apr 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 10 Apr 2026909 days leftCloses 23 Feb 2029
Who to contact
Contracts Team
Contracts@ypo.co.uk
+44 7901239756

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£15.0mtotal contract value
median £263k
this tender£0£16.2m

This is a large award for Clothing & Footwear — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 1,446 valued Clothing & Footwear tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

YPO has published 18 Clothing & Footwear notices, about every 7 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around November 2026.

58% of YPO’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

YPO are looking for suppliers to be appointed onto a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for the provision of school uniforms.

The DPS is designed to meet the needs of all public sector organisations which includes YPO’s internal requirements.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

2 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
YPO are looking for suppliers to be appointed onto a dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for the provision of school uniforms.
ESPO / YPO / NEPOFrameworks & routes to market
YPO - 001021 School Uniform

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.

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f8cb
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
032964-2026
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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