Computer Contracts and Tenders

Search live notices on Stotles, or watch a buyer's existing hardware framework for its next refresh cycle. Laptop and desktop purchases are often called off against a Crown Commercial Service or regional framework rather than advertised as a fresh open tender, so getting onto the right framework matters as much as catching each individual notice.

Physical computer hardware: laptops, desktop PCs, tablets and end user devices, plus the frameworks and refresh contracts buyers use to keep their device estate current. It does not cover IT services, software licensing or cloud contracts, which sit on their own IT tenders page, and it excludes the many notices that only mention a computer in passing, such as a lab equipment purchase or an insurance schedule listing "computer" among the risks covered.

Councils and universities run large laptop and desktop refresh programmes, often for several thousand devices at once. NHS trusts buy hardware for clinical and administrative systems, schools and academy trusts replace classroom and staff devices on a rolling cycle, and central government departments run national hardware-as-a-service frameworks that other bodies call off from directly.

The main one is 30200000 (Computer equipment and supplies), which appears on 1,447 of the notices matching this filter. 30213100 (Portable computers) is the next most common, on 743 of them, reflecting how much of this category is laptop purchasing specifically.

Often, yes. National frameworks such as the Government Commercial Organisation's Technology Products and Associated Services agreement, and NHS-wide device frameworks, account for a large share of the awarded notices here, with individual buyers calling off laptops or desktops as needed rather than running their own competition each time.