IT Hardware and Services (LINK3) (Ref: 2020/S 182-440755)

Provides trusts and other public sector authorities with a compliant, cost effective and easy to use framework to procure competitively priced and appropriately specified IT Hardware products, services and equipment including PC's, laptops, table devices, printers and specialist healthcare-related IT Hardware such as laptop carts and clinical displays.

• Endorsed by NHS England as a recommended route to market for NHS buyers.
• Capped pricing is offered on a core basket of devices which meet approved NHS standard specifications across all Lots
• Supplier commitment to minimum product life cycles and notification period for planned product demise & introduction of new products
• Sustainable products with demonstrable environmental benefits can be obtained throughout all available Lots
• Suitable testing of the market that provides robust value-for-money assessed suppliers, which comply with latest guidance and regulations for the purchase of hardware products and services
• Flexibility to change suppliers and products with no minimum volume or commitment period

Framework Agreement

Lot 1: Desktop PCs;
Lot 2: Laptop/Notebook devices;
Lot 3: Mobile Devices (tablets, mobile phones and wearables);
Lot 4: Specialist Healthcare-related IT Hardware;
Lot 4a: PC/Laptop carts and peripherals;
Lot 4b: Clinical displays and peripherals;
Lot 5: Printers/Scanners;
Lot 6: One Stop Shop

Academia (Lots 3);
Bytes Software (Lots 3, 5 and 6);
CCS Media (Lot 5);
CDW Ltd (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6);
Computacenter (UK) Ltd (Lot 1);
Dell Corporation Ltd (Lots 1, 2, 4, and 6);
Desk Top Publishing Micro Systems Ltd (Lot 5);
Getech Ltd (Lots 1, 2, 3, and 6);
IDNS (Lots 2 and 3);
Insight Direct (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6);
Insight Systems (Lot 5);
MTI Technology (Lot 5);
Parity Medical (Lot 4);
Punch Technology (Lot 1);
Ricoh (Lot 2 and 5);
Softcat (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6);
Specialist Computer Centres (SCC) (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6);
Stone Computers (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6);
XMA (Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6)