Awarded contract

Welcome to School Bags

Details

Value
£2,700,000
Topic
Educational equipment
Published
2 November 2026

Tender description

Welcome to School Bags providing all Primary 1 pupils attending a local primary school with a starter pack, filled with essential items such as, stationery, a water bottle, books, and resources to help families encourage literacy and numeracy practice at home. Lot 1: Welcome to School Bags - Primary 1 pupils attending a local primary school with a starter pack, filled with essential items such as, stationery, a water bottle, books, and resources to help families encourage literacy and numeracy practice at home. In the first year of delivery, the Welcome to School bag is to be made available in 5 colours. Colour options will be reviewed for the second year.. The total value of the procurement reflects the maximum potential value of the contract, including both the initial first year and the potential additional 12 month extension period.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date16 October 2026
  2. Completed: Award published2 November 2026
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About the buyer

The Scottish Government is a devolved central government department that buys through its Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate. The directorate also runs frameworks covering construction, corporate services, ICT, professional services, utilities and HR. Many of these frameworks are open to the wider Scottish public sector as well as central government.

The Supplier Development Programme offers free tender training to SMEs and third sector organisations.

Over the past 5 years, most of the Scottish Government's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and research and development.

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