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PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Provision of Books and Reading Materials for Secondary School

Department for Education · published 2 Sept 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

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Contracts Finder release IDb34e38c1-233b-43de-804c-dcfba3981ea9-912699
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-b0b151d8-f17f-420f-8e03-02271ac7f888
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-126886
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

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Award value
£5,000,000
award field
Tender value
£5,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
22100000
Printed books, brochures and leaflets
Delivery
North East, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

As part of the National Year of Reading, the Department for Education (DfE) is providing £ 5milllion to eligible secondary schools in England to purchase books and reading materials to encourage reading for pleasure and support literacy outcomes. The contract has been awarded to A T Little & Sons Ltd T/A Browns Books for the provision of books, reading materials and associated services, including an online ordering platform, order fulfilment , delivery , spend management and management information reporting. Eligible schools will be able to purchase books and reading materials up to their allocated funding value. This contract was awarded following a further competition under the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) Framework Agreement LIB4061SU, Lot 1

Tender statuscomplete
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  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release2 Sept 2026
  2. 02Tender period startsTender-period field as published19 Aug 2026
  3. 03Tender period endsTender-period field as published31 Jul 2026End precedes start · verify
  4. 04Contract startsContract-period field as published19 Aug 2026
  5. 05Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2027
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

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BROWNS BOOKS

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SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 2 Sept 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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