Teaching and Learning Resources (including Assessment Materials)

Published facts

What the notice says

Buyer

Education Authority

Published status

complete

Latest release reference

078944-2025

CPV codes

Not stated

Published tags

award, contract

Latest record Bidwake loaded from this source

27 Aug 2026

The Education Authority (EA) invited tenders for the supply and delivery of Teaching and Learning Resources (including Assessment Materials) to individual schools and EA locations within Northern Ireland for a period of 4 years. This framework agreement is let by the Northern Ireland Education Authority ("EA") and is open to the EA, including NI educational bodies as follows and at some point, during the life of the framework agreement these bodies may wish to utilize the agreement and should have access, at any point, with the permission of EA. This framework agreement is not intended to replace any current contracts/framework agreements that participating or non-participating institutions may already have in place. https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/services/schoolsplus Primary and Post Primary schools under the control of the EA, Catholic Maintained Schools, Independent Schools in NI, Irish Medium Schools in NI, both Controlled and Voluntary Grammar Schools, Nursery School for NI (both controlled and Catholic Maintained), school meals kitchens on-site at all of these schools, and Controlled Youth Centre's. https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/further-education-fe-colleges Further Education Colleges in NI, https://www.nicie.org/parents/school-finder/ Grant Controlled Integrated Education Schools in NI, https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/northern-ireland/ Independent School in NI, Libraries NI: https://www.librariesni.org.uk/Libraries/, EA Teachers' and Educational Centre's, Council for the Curriculum, Examination and Assessment NI (CCEA), Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, Middletown Centre for Autism, Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC), Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE), Pre-Schools and Nurseries included within the EA's Pre- School Education Programme (PSEP)

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1. Award notice observed

   15 Oct 2025

   Latest variant observed by Bidwake on 16 Jul 2026.

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   Record references

   Release reference

   065562-2025

   Published tags

   award, contract

2. Award notice observed

   2 Dec 2025

   Latest variant observed by Bidwake on 16 Jul 2026.

   Open this official Find a Tender notice

   Record references

   Release reference

   078944-2025

   Published tags

   award, contract

Awards and suppliers

Published award and contract facts

• Lot 4 Music Materials

  Buyer: Education AuthoritySupplier: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LIMITED

  End date in notice

  31 Oct 2029Date from the linked contract

  Value shown in notice

  £4,000,000Value from the linked contract

  Official source

  Open the official Find a Tender notice for Lot 4 Music Materials

  About this figure

  • This award names more than one supplier but does not divide the published value between them. The figure is shown for context and is not assigned to one supplier.
  • This figure comes from the linked contract record. Overall totals continue to use the separately published award value.

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  Source

  Find a Tender

  Award or lot reference

  1

• Lot 4 Music Materials

  Buyer: Education AuthoritySupplier: RED BOX BOOKS LIMITED

  End date in notice

  31 Oct 2029

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