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The Department for Education is undertaking a quickfire procurement exercise to set up a portal that will allow its staff to order any equipment needed to work from home.

The DfE published a contract notice on Tuesday – with a submission deadline of today – seeking a supplier that could deliver such a platform.

“The Department for Education requires a solution to be provided that will allow its staff to purchase home working equipment using a portal and have it delivered to their residential address,” it said. “The portal should be available for use from 3 April.”

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The procurement is being held via the Crown Commercial Service’s Technology Products and Associated Services framework. Suppliers on the vehicles second lot – which contains 37 firms accredited to deliver hardware and services – are invited to respond to [4] a “mini-competition” being run via the department’s bespoke Jaggaer online platform [5].

Given the time constraints, the DfE is using the framework’s “simplified competition route”.

The value of the deal to the winning supplier is listed as £500,000.