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Simplifying licensing of the latest software and services from Microsoft. The Microsoft Education Qualified User Agreement provides beneficial terms and prices for volume licensing of software such as Office, SharePoint, SQL Server and Exchange, operating systems like Windows Server and Windows Desktop Upgrades.
Non standard licence terms and conditions.
Agreement start date: 1 January 2021
Agreement end date: 31 December 2023
This framework is available to Higher Education, Further Education, Sixth Form Colleges and Schools in the UK.
The Chest Microsoft EES EQU Agreement provides the following benefits over and above a standard Microsoft EES EQU Agreement:
Additionally, sites committing for three years with Microsoft can access the following benefits too:
For institutions that enrol with Microsoft for one year and choose 100% M365 A5 coverage, there will be an additional 5% discount from normal Level B pricing.
Chest has contracted with the resellers for this agreement under the National Framework for Software Resellers to allow all the Community to enjoy the benefits of aggregated purchasing. The resellers under the agreement and details of their pricing and value added services can be found on the Resellers tab.
Your responsibilities under this agreement are otherwise unchanged from signing an agreement directly with Microsoft. You are not jointly responsible for the actions of any other participant site.
This content is restricted to logged in members.
By completing the order form, you are agreeing to participate in the Chest Microsoft EES 2021 Education Qualified User Agreement and confirming also that you have had the opportunity to read the Agreement between Jisc Services Limited (“Jisc”) and Microsoft, which may be found on the Chest website.
One copy of the order form must be completed before any products can be ordered under the Chest Microsoft EES 2021 Education Qualified User Agreement.
Please note that Resellers will not process your order until Jisc has confirmed receipt of an order form. you MUST choose a Contracted Reseller from the list displayed on the Chest website, and place orders only with your chosen Contracted Reseller or other Contracted Resellers on that list.
Period of participation
The Participant may elect to participate at any time during the period 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2023 inclusive for a period or periods of one or three years. The prices paid for Microsoft products during the period of participation will be fixed at the prices applicable at the date of Subscription Enrolment.
To be eligible to participate, Participant must employ a minimum of 100 Education Qualified Users as defined in the Microsoft Enrolment Document which is provided and managed by the Resellers.
For all Participants
The first Participation Fee is payable on or before the date of your first order for Microsoft products under the Agreement. Any subsequent Participation Fee is payable annually in advance of the anniversary date of your committing to participate.
Please note that after you have submitted the order form then additional years’ membership only require a purchase order for the relevant Fee.
The Participation Fees are fixed and firm until December 2023 but may be increased for Fees due to be paid in periods of participation after December 2023. The Participation Fees specified are exclusive of VAT which shall be payable in addition at the applicable rate.
The Participant acknowledges that Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited (“Microsoft”) and Jisc Services Limited (a company limited by guarantee with the number 2881024) ("Jisc”) have entered into the Microsoft EES 2021 Education Qualified User Agreement (as amended, modified, and supplemented to the date hereof, the “Agreement”) under which the Participant desires to licence software. All terms used but not defined herein will have the meanings assigned in the Agreement. A copy of the Agreement is exhibited on the Chest website.
By completing the order (acting through its authorised representative) agrees to purchase licences for the use of the software, number of users and duration specified in order forms submitted pursuant to this Agreement to Participate and accepted by Jisc, and agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions set out below.
Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, Participant is entitled to licence certain Microsoft software at preferential rates offered by Microsoft. By signing the agreement form to which these conditions are annexed, you have agreed to purchase the number and type of licences for the software (“the Software”) specified in the order form submitted pursuant to this Agreement to Participate and accepted by Jisc (“the Order Form”). These terms and conditions set out the basis on which Participant agrees to licence that software.
All terms used but not defined in these conditions will have the meanings assigned in the Agreement or this Agreement to Participate. References to “you” mean the Participant, references to “we“ or “us” mean Jisc Services Ltd (“Jisc”), and references to “this Agreement” mean the Agreement as amended or supplemented by these conditions.
This is a three year agreement running from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2023. At whatever point you join the agreement, your contract will run for either one or three years. The advantage of choosing the three year option is that prices will be fixed for the three years.
On joining, the Chest fee is due up-front for the chosen duration (1 or 3 years).
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