Buying Curio in the UK: frameworks and routes

Crown Commercial Service Digital Outcomes and Specialists 6 (DOS6), Lot 1: Digital Outcomes
NERARS (National Education Recruitment Advertising and Resourcing Services), Lot 1
University of Leeds Digital Education Services Framework

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Which route to use

	DOS6, Lot 1	NERARS, Lot 1	University of Leeds DES
Use it for	Multidisciplinary digital delivery from discovery to live: service design, UX and UI, software engineering, product and delivery management, user research, content design	Recruitment marketing: campaign strategy, media planning and buying, creative, microsites, social and digital, candidate experience	Online learning design and development
Who can buy	Any UK public body, including universities	Members of UK university purchasing consortia (SUPC, LUPC, NEUPC, NWUPC, APUC, HEPCW)	The University of Leeds, and many other universities through call-off, subject to their procurement policy
How to award	Further competition, or invited competition through the DOS portal (two to four weeks for a rapid competition)	Direct award by lot ranking, or mini-competition	Call-off or mini-competition across lots
Good for	Course technology builds, platform integrations, portals, data pipelines, content tooling	Academic and professional staff attraction campaigns, EVP refreshes, always-on recruitment	End-to-end online course builds, programme transformation, component development, accessibility uplift

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