Furniture and Associated Services Framework Agreement

This framework covers a broad range of furniture for schools and academies including but not limited to: classroom furniture and school education furniture, laboratory furniture, staging and performance areas, general administrative, storage and conference furniture, school sensory furniture and equipment, specialist room furniture, school dining hall/canteen furniture and school library furniture. 

This framework has a total of 17 suppliers across 6 lots to meet member requirements.

LOT 1 - Classroom and Educational Furniture 

LOT 2 - General Administrative, Storage and Conference Furniture

LOT 3 - Dining Room Furniture

LOT 4 - Library Furniture

LOT 5 - SEN and Early Year Furniture and Accessories

LOT 6 - Specialist Rooms including Laboratory Furniture

Ad hoc advice and support

Opportunities for joint marketing including supplier webinars for members, social media campaigns, supplier network meetings, supplier newsletter, supplier directory, video portfolio, Approved supplier of CPC logo for marketing purposes. 

Framework focused on supporting school and academy members with their furniture requirements

A multi supplier framework agreement will ensure that suppliers remain competitive through the life of the framework agreement

Compliant with UK Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015)

Time saving, members can use this school furniture framework rather than completing a full tender process

Engaged and experienced school outfitters

Extensive variety of school furniture items available

1. Using this framework supports our Giving Back initiative. Our charity's focus is on SEND, wellbeing and absenteeism

The framework can be utilised in the following ways:

1. Further Competition - Member institutions may choose to utilise the further competition template. Institutions should allow suppliers a minimum of 2 weeks to respond to their request (or 3 weeks for a longer term/more complex requirement)
2. Further Competition Using a Further Competition Calculator
3. Direct Award - where the terms laid down in the agreement are sufficiently precise to cover the members’ particular requirement and the most economically advantageous offer can be easily identified, the member can award the call-off without reopening competition. This method is recommended for ad-hoc, low value and/or low risk purchases, and institutions are encouraged to reference the framework to ensure they are obtaining framework pricing and terms
4. Direct Award Using a Desktop Exercise

Important Procurement Act 2023 requirement

It is very important for CPC members to register on the new Find a Tender Service to create your organisation’s unique procurement identifier, known as an API Key. You then need to add the API Key to your profile on our MultiQuote eSender portal to run compliant mini competitions for our frameworks. It is a requirement under Procurement Act 2023 that relevant notices are published to the Find a Tender Service and MultiQuote can only publish your notices if you have added your API Key. See our Find a tender service registration web page for a step-by-step guide on how to register.

The CPC Quote Tool makes it easy to perform and manage a further competition exercise on this Framework. It's free to use for all our members and offers quick, compliant access to all suppliers on purchases that fall below £207,720.00

Get a Quote

If your purchase exceeds £207,720.00, the CPC Sourcing Cloud is available that complies with the regulations to allow electronic tender returns whilst still being free to use for our members. Find out more about the CPC Sourcing Cloud.

Direct award is best suited to procurements such as (but not limited to):

• Low value / low complexity requirements
• Where goods or services are exclusive to one supplier / provider
• Continuity or additions to existing goods or services
• Urgent / one-off requirements

Make a Direct Award