Laptop Contracts and Tenders

To date the Stotles corpus holds 683 laptop-related notices: 553 awarded, 109 closed and 21 at pre-tender stage. The mix is dominated by refresh and replacement notices rather than one-off purchases, and most are call-offs against an existing framework rather than standalone competitions.

Notices covering outright purchase, multi-year leasing, and managed device-as-a-service deals for laptops, alongside refresh and replacement programmes for existing hardware estates. A number also bundle laptops with desktops or tablets under a single device contract, so the corpus includes some mixed-device notices as well as laptop-only ones.

Many do. Several notices in the corpus are call-offs against Crown Commercial Service's RM6098 technology products agreement, and others sit under NHS Shared Business Services device frameworks. Buyers use these to avoid running a full competition for what is usually a routine hardware refresh.

CPV 30213100 (Portable computers) is the closest match, covering 137 notices alongside the keyword filter used here. The broader 30200000 (Computer equipment and supplies) covers 190, since many buyers file laptop purchases under general IT hardware codes rather than the specific portable-computer one.

Both appear in the corpus. Outright purchase notices for a set number of units sit alongside multi-year operating leases and managed device-as-a-service deals, where a supplier handles procurement, delivery and lifecycle replacement for a fixed term.