Notification of invitation to tender for School Open Source Project

Becta wishes to ensure that schools are aware of and can access the
wide variety of open source software in the marketplace.  To achieve
this it recognises that they must be supported in its awareness,
adoption, deployment, use and ongoing development.  In order to aid
this we are commissioning a project to:

1.  Support a sustainable and significant community of schools who use
and develop open source products by April 2010; and

2. Provide schools specific content development on open source
implementations.

The intended timetable for project award will be:

2nd May
 Invitation to Tender issued

By 12 noon 9th May
 Tenderers submit questions and comments regarding tender documents.
(see 1.6 above)

13th May
 Becta responds to questions and comments via email to all tenderers

By 12 noon 20th May
 Bidders submit tender (see 1.8 above)

3rd June
 Please endeavour to keep free as a shortlist of bidders may be
invited to Becta to discuss their tender submission, after which a
final decision will be made on awarding the Contract. (see 1.3 above)

12th June
 Contract Award

Please address all correspondence or requests for tender documents  to
tender.questi...@becta.org.uk

Best regards

David Carey

Becta Consultant