London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) is undertaking this recurrent tendering process on behalf of the National Desktop and Notebook Agreement and leads a multi-HE Consortia working party that oversees the procurement of Desktop, Notebook, Tablet and Workstation PCs and similar equipment for the Higher Education sector and associated public sector bodies throughout the UK.

LUPC is seeking to establish framework agreements for participating institutions with three or more suppliers across three lots. It is envisaged that these arrangements will commence on 1.8.2013 and will continue for a period of three years with the facility to extend for a further one year subject to agreement between the parties. This requirement automatically covers Full or Associate Members within the higher education regional purchasing consortia as follows: LUPC

(http://www.lupc.ac.uk/about/memberslist.aspx), SUPC(http://supc.procureweb.ac.uk/aboutsupc/supcmembers), APUC

(http://www.apucscot.ac.uk/members.htm), HEPCW

(http://hepcw.procureweb.ac.uk/1019), NEUPC

(http://neupc.procureweb.ac.uk/members.php) and NWUPC(http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/members/index.php)

including all future Members. Members of the consortia either already are or may be drawn from the Higher Education sector, Further Education sector, the Research Council and other Public and Third Sector bodies principally but not exclusively from the education, arts, sciences and cultural sectors.