London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC), a company limited by guarantee, is undertook this recurrent tendering process on behalf of the National Desktop and Notebook Agreement, leading a multi-HE Consortia working party to oversee the procurement of Desktop, Notebook, 2-in-1 Hybrid devices, Tablet and Workstation PCs and attached accessories for the Higher Education sector and associated public sector bodies throughout the UK.

London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC), a company limited by guarantee, led the undertaking of this recurrent tendering process to oversee the procurement of Desktop (Lot 1), Notebook, 2-in-1 Hybrid devices, Tablet (Lot 2) and Workstation PCs (Lots 1 and 2) and attached accessories for the Higher Education sector and associated public sector bodies throughout the UK including a one stop shop arrangement (Lot 3).

This three-lot framework agreement commenced 1.11.2022 for a period of three years with the facility to extend for a further one year subject to agreement. The requirement automatically covers Full or Associate Members within the higher education regional purchasing consortia as follows:

London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) http://www.lupc.ac.uk/list-of-members.html; Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) http://www.supc.ac.uk/engage/our-members/our-members; North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC) http://www.neupc.ac.uk/our-members; North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC) http://www.nwupc.ac.uk/our-members; Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (APUC) http://www.apuc-scot.ac.uk/#!/members and Higher Education Purchasing Consortium Wales (HEPCW) http://www.hepcw.ac.uk/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.

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