General Stationery and Office Paper Framework.

Descriptions

The Framework Agreement is for the provision of General Stationery and Office Paper including delivery to Framework Public Bodies' premises and associated service elements.The scope of General Stationery covers writing materials; files, folders and storage (e.g. ring binders, polythene pockets, box files and archival storage); envelopes; diaries; planners and calendars; postage stamps; small desktop furniture (e.g. monitor risers, letter trays, desk tidies); small office electrical items (e.g. telephone headsets, batteries, shredders, laminators); and other stationery items (e.g. staplers, paperclips, adhesives, labels, ink stamps).Office Paper will consist of White copier paper and Coloured copier paper.The Framework Agreement will be available for use by the Scottish Ministers (including Agencies), Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies, offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices, cross- border public authorities within the meaning of section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, the Scotland Office, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, councils constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, the Scottish Police Authority, Scottish health boards or special health boards, all NHS Scotland, The Integrated Joint Boards established further to the Public Bodies (Joint Working) Act 2014, bodies registered as social landlords under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, Student Loans Company Limited, the Forestry Commission, the Commissioner of Northern Lighthouse operating as the Northern Lighthouse Board, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Business Stream Ltd, the Business Gateway National Unit at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, further or higher education institutions being fundable bodies within the meaning of section 6 of the further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005, any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by one or more of the foregoing, bodies financed wholly or mainly by one or more of the foregoing, bodies subject to management supervision by one or more of the foregoing and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which, or, in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by 1 or more of the foregoing. In addition to the contracting authorities listed, the framework agreement will be available to charities entered on the Scottish Charity Register and voluntary organisations entered on the Membership Database of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.Information about Public Bodies of the Scottish Ministers which are not ministerial offices is available at:http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies/about/Bodies