School procurement

Buying goods, works and services. Collaborative procurement, finding suppliers, practical tips. Example contracts, timelines and letters.

Guidance and regulation

Join the risk protection arrangement (RPA) for schools
- Detailed guide
- 29 August 2024
- Department for Education
Buying for schools: find an approved framework agreement
- Detailed guide
- 1 September 2023
- Department for Education
Make a claim through the risk protection arrangement (RPA)
- Detailed guide
- 8 November 2024
- Department for Education
Buying for schools
- Detailed guide
- 18 January 2024
- Department for Education
How to bid for government contracts as an SME effectively
- Detailed guide
- 23 March 2023
- Cabinet Office and Department for Education

Schools able to buy more with the DfE furniture framework
- 10 June 2022
- Department for Education
- Case study
Schools save money with DfE IT frameworks
- 10 June 2022
- Department for Education
- Case study
Schools save time and money with DfE cleaning frameworks
- 10 June 2022
- Department for Education
- Case study
Teaching vacancies helps save time and money on recruitment
- 10 June 2022
- Department for Education
- Case study
The impact of school resource management advisers (SRMAs)
- 1 March 2022
- Education and Skills Funding Agency
- News story

Risk protection arrangement (RPA) summary provisioning analysis
- 29 August 2024
- Department for Education and Government Actuary's Department
- Independent report
Fee information, purchasing decisions and value for money
- 2 August 2019
- Ofqual
- Research

Launch of the Get Help Buying for Schools service
- 20 April 2021
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 12 March 2021
School resource management: building a stronger system
- 8 June 2023
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
Schools’ buying strategy
- 20 April 2021
- Department for Education
- Policy paper

School buying: performance of initiatives
- 29 August 2023
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Trends in school spending: 2002 to 2016
- 18 December 2018
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Centre of Procurement Performance
- 7 April 2011
- Department for Education
- Foi release