Harness the potential of your combined buying power through My Academy Trust. Designed especially for multi-academy trusts of five or more, we can provide an exclusive offering allowing you to maximise your savings.
By aggregating spend, you can take advantage of up to 5% rebate on annual catalogue stock spend accumulated from across your multiple sites, meaning that the more your academy trust spends with ESPO, the more savings you’ll get back overall.
As more of your academies use ESPO for their everyday buying needs, your MAT can increase its rebate level and therefore achieve greater annual returns.
Using ESPO as their main supplier, academy trusts can achieve significant savings:
Actual rebate payable is calculated on an average stock spend per pupil basis and calculated annually using DfE gov.uk data. Please contact us to find out the rebate potential for your trust. *SPP -
ESPO is a professional buying organisation; 100% owned by the public sector, any surplus we make after recovering our costs is returned to the public purse. We strive to offer best value and procurement support for all walks of the public sector and have been working in the industry for over 40 years.
Jointly owned by six Member Authorities, we are committed to providing value-for-money for our customers by pursuing best practice in procurement, sourcing, supply chain management, contract management and compliance.
While some providers look to tempt you with inflated discount levels to draw you in, ESPO opt for an open and honest pricing strategy offering consistently low prices on our products every day. Along with your annual rebate potential, your multi-academy trust can achieve true best value overall through ESPO.
With over 40 years’ experience supplying the education sector, ESPO truly can provide a one-stop shop solution including products, free-to-access framework solutions and bespoke support for large-scale procurement projects.
Our comprehensive catalogue boasts over 27,000 products at consistently low prices covering a wide range of resources:
EXERCISE BOOKS & PAPERS
STATIONERY
PRESENTATION
EARLY YEARS
CURRICULUM
ART & CRAFTS
CATERING, WHITE GOODS, HYGIENE & CLEANING
SITE & SAFETY MANAGEMENT
FURNITURE
We regularly compare our prices with other suppliers to make sure we remain competitive. We are happy to benchmark a previous order you have, to show just how much you could save by using ESPO.
As a My Academy Trust customer you will receive exclusive discounts throughout the academic year, giving you the flexibility to utilise our offers in line with your budgets to make further cost savings.
7.5% off
our stock range* for a six week period of your choosing from the following dates:
17/04/2023 – 28/05/2023
04/09/2023 – 15/10/2023
06/11/2023 – 17/12/2023
08/01/2024 – 18/02/2024
19/02/2024 – 22/03/2024
Don’t forget, you’ll also receive our standard Summer Holiday Offer of 7.5% off stock items!
5% off stock items in our Smartbuy range*
For larger furniture and equipment requirements you might want an extra helping hand. That’s where our very own Furniture & Equipment Projects team come in. Specialising in new build and refurbishment projects, they can work closely with you to support and streamline the process and help ensure things run smoothly from start to finish. *Terms
In addition to our comprehensive catalogue range, ESPO provide simple-to-use procurement solutions so you can make your budget and resources count where they are needed the most.
We know that Academy Business Leaders are becoming increasingly responsible for the procurement of a growing number of different goods and service areas, which may require additional levels of knowledge and expertise; that’s where ESPO frameworks can help to ease the burden, saving you time and effort!
Our procurement solutions are easy to use, fully compliant with UK procurement regulations, and offer your trust a pre-approved and efficient route to sourcing a wide range of products and services.
We have created a dedicated Frameworks for Education hub containing a group of our most popular and relevant solutions to support you with your procurement.
We cover all the key education procurement areas such as:
Books and library resources
Education technology products
Energy and utilities
Find out more at espo.org/frameworks-for-education
Sports and leisure including outdoor equipment, PE and gym maintenance
As a Multi-Academy Trust, we want to help you harness your collective buying power and maximise what can often be significant cost savings but we know that this can be a daunting task. That’s why our My Academy Trust customers receive additional support from our expert Procurement teams including:
who can provide help, advice and support
This means you can buy with confidence, safe in the knowledge that ESPO is there every step of the way.
A number of our frameworks are now Department for Education (DfE) approved, meaning our frameworks have been assessed for compliance with procurement regulations, ease of use, suitability and value for money for the education sector - ensuring you have peace of mind when procuring goods and services for your organisation.
We now have DfE approved frameworks across the following categories:
• Books, library resources and education supplies
• Energy and Utilities
• Facilities Management
• Food and Catering
Look out for the DfE approved logo on our frameworks at espo.org.
Using ESPO’s Energy frameworks, Electricity (191) and Gas (192), The Two Counties Trust was supported with all aspects of their utility procurement after it became increasingly difficult to manage a mix of supply agreements, varying contract end dates and limited management of information across their nine schools.
The Trust was supported with:
Access to the team for the latest energy market news and info
Sites and meters identification / portfolio management
Transparent fees, so it is clear what each school was being charged
ESPO provide data for the Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR)
Complete control and visibility of portfolio
Controlled costs
Below market average prices
“The ESPO Energy Team has supported the Trust in establishing a strategic approach to the procurement of gas and electricity which ensures compliance and provides value for money, access to the latest energy market news and enhanced management information, reports and analytics.”
- The Two Counties Trust
