Microsoft EES Staff FTE Agreement

Benefits

• choice of one or three year enrolment - NB after 30 June 2018, only the one year option will be available
• unlimited site licence
• pricing normally available only to the largest sites
• a choice of resellers - the resellers for this agreement, are all contracted on the relevant lot of the National HE/FE Framework Agreement for Software Licence Resellers (SLRA)

Important dates

Agreement start date: 1 November 2016

Agreement end date: 31 October 2019

Eligible Institutions

This framework is only available to Further and Higher Education Institutions in the UK. Schools and academy trusts with schools in are precluded.

The Chest Microsoft Master EES Agreement opens up the preferential pricing that may be obtained by sites with over 3,000 FTE Staff under EES to all sites regardless of FTE count. This represents a saving of around 7% for Desktop Campus, Office, Core CAL, Enterprise CAL and Windows Upgrade licences for sites with more 1,000 FTE and around 17% for Institution with less than 1,000 FTE Staff.

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.