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FAE-26-003 Sports Equipment, Fitness Equipment and the Maintenance of Gymnasium and Fitness Equipment

Details

Topic
Sports goods and equipment
Published
4 September 2026
Submission
30 September 2026in 4 days

Tender description

The EA are inviting tenders for FAE-26-003 Sports Equipment, Fitness Equipment and the Maintenance of Gymnasium and Fitness Equipment. All goods and services are provided to Individual Educational Establishments within Northern Ireland (NI) for the period of 4 years. This framework agreement is let by the Northern Ireland Education Authority (“EA”) and is open to the EA (the Client), including NI educational bodies as follows and at some point during the life of the framework agreement these bodies may wish to use the framework agreement and should have access, at any point, with the permission of the Authority. This framework agreement is not intended to replace any current contracts/framework agreements that participating or non-participating institutions may already have in place. https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/services/schools-plus Primary and Post Primary schools under the control of the EA, Catholic Maintained Schools, Independent Schools in NI, Irish Medium Schools in NI, both Controlled and, Voluntary Grammar Schools, Nursery School for NI (both controlled and Catholic Maintained), school meals kitchens on-site at all of these schools, and Controlled Youth Centres. https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/further-education-fe-colleges Further Education Colleges in NI https://www.nicie.org/parents/school-finder/ Grant Controlled Integrated Education Schools in NI https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/northern-ireland/ Independent School in NI Libraries NI: https://www.librariesni.org.uk/Libraries/ EA Teachers’ and Educational Centres Council for the Curriculum, Examination and Assessment NI (CCEA) Armagh Observatory and Planetarium Middletown Centre for Autism Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC) Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE).

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published4 September 2026
    Current notice
  2. Next: Submission date30 September 2026in 4 days

About the buyer

Education Authority Northern Ireland administers most education sector procurement in Northern Ireland, and buys as a non-departmental public body with its own procurement service. That service is one of six Centres of Procurement Expertise in Northern Ireland. Every tender is issued on eTendersNI, where suppliers register, pick their CPV codes and add the Authority as an area of interest. Dynamic purchasing systems are open to join, and a published pipeline lists current activity. Procurement support also goes to schools, school meals kitchens and youth clubs. Contract categories run from transport, fleet and catering to construction, ICT and business services.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of Education Authority Northern Ireland's contract awards have been in IT services, construction work and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 37400000 · Sports goods and equipment
  • 37420000 · Gymnasium equipment
  • 37440000 · Fitness equipments
  • 37450000 · Field and court sports equipment
  • 51121000 · Installation services of fitness equipment

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