Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will set out the procurement and selection processes used to approve products for the classroom filtration device marketplace.

To procure air filtration devices the department ran a competitive process on the Crown Commercial Services Framework RM6157 Lot 3. The bids submitted by suppliers were evaluated and moderated anonymously. The bids were evaluated on price, quality, and social value to give a supplier an overall score. The suppliers that met the department’s requirements had their products made available on the marketplace.

The selection process to add products to the marketplace was based on the department’s technical specification created by leading industry experts, including the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers and the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), and multiple iterations to ensure relevance to schools.