Permissible Users

NEPO is a Central Purchasing Body as defined in the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (PCR15) and a Centralised Procurement Authority as defined under the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23). This means that NEPO may provide central purchasing activity on behalf of Contracting Authorities. The Contract Notice under PCR15, now Tender Notice under PA23, published by NEPO in respect of each individual procurement project provides direction on which Contracting Authorities may access the resulting Solution. NEPO may list specific Contracting Authorities within a Contract Notice or Tender Notice. NEPO may also provide a link to this web page within a Contract Notice or Tender Notice. Where a link to this webpage is included it is NEPO's intention to allow the resulting Solution to be open for use by all Contracting Authorities listed or accessible from all links within this document. This page may be updated over time to ensure the accuracy of the links below is maintained.

Contracting Authorities

Solutions will be available for use by all NEPO Members. A list of member organisations is available in the About section of this website.

Solutions will also be made available to all current and future NEPO Associate Members. Current Associate Members are listed in the Associate Member section of this website.

Where a link to this webpage is used by NEPO within a Contract Notice or Tender Notice NEPO intends to make the resulting Solution available for use by all Contracting Authorities (as defined by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and the Procurement Act 2023) throughout all administrative regions of the UK including but not limited to Government Departments and their Agencies, Non-Departmental Public Bodies, Central Government, NHS Bodies, Local Authorities, Emergency Services, Coastguard Emergency Services, Statutory Harbour Authorities, Educational Establishments, Registered Social Landlords and Registered Charities who have a need to purchase the above services.

Please see the following websites for further details:

• Find your local council 
• Department for Education 
• Check if your university or college can award a degree
• Schools Web Directory UK - University Websites
• Schools Web Directory UK - Search Schools by County
• Find and check the performance of schools and colleges in England 
• Parentzone Scotland | Education Scotland
• Hwb (gov.wales)
• Home | Department of Education (education-ni.gov.uk)
• Open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs 
• Discover Uni and Unistats - Office for Students
• Archive Timeline - UK Government Web Archive
• Archive Timeline - UK Government Web Archive (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
• NHS Service Finder - NHS Digital
• NHS Wales
• Our Services (scottishambulance.com)
• Health and Social Care Northern Ireland
• Departments, agencies and public bodies 
• Government departments | Northern Ireland Executive
• Local councils in Northern Ireland | nidirect
• Scottish Local Government Financial Statistics 2010-11
• Department for Communities (communities-ni.gov.uk)
• List of public bodies to which NI public procurement policy applies
  
• Office for National Statistics 
• UK wide agencies and specialist agencies | Police.uk 
• Police Information 
• Police Service of Northern Ireland 
• Police Scotland
• Maritime and Coastguard Agency
  
• UK Fire Service Resources
• Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service
• Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
• Registered providers of social housing
• Scottish Housing Regulator
• Housing | Topic | GOV.WALES
• Housing associations | nidirect
• The Charity Commission 
• OSCR | Home
• iDEA: Develop digital, enterprise and employability skills for free
• About the register of charities
• Buyer Search - Sell2Wales 
• Rented housing sector
• Harbour Orders 
• Police Service of Scotland
• Fire.org

Organisations wishing to access NEPO agreements will be required to register as a NEPO Associate Member in the first instance.