Chest Agreements are the result of a series of negotiations between Eduserv, the academic community and suppliers and resellers of software and data products.

Why Use CHEST for your Microsoft Agreement

• Eduserv has pre-tendered 8 of 19 UK EdLAR’s (Education Large Account Reseller) for this agreement to ensure transparency of pricing and to allow all the Community to enjoy the benefits of aggregated purchasing
• Two Microsoft agreements available, Campus & Select
• The Eduserv Microsoft Consortium Campus Agreement opens up the preferential pricing that may be obtained by all FE & HE institutes regardless of FTE count
• Under the Eduserv Campus agreement institutes can realize a saving of around 7% for Desktop Campus licence this includes Office Enterprise, Core CAL Suite or Enterprise CAL Suite and Windows Upgrade licences – which are effectively the “core” products under the agreement
• This agreement is not available anywhere else

Why SBL?:

• In depth licensing knowledge ensures compliancy and knowledge transfer
• Competitive pricing guarantees value for money
• Tailored managed services for CASA benefits
• Dedicated Microsoft resource team
• Bespoke Professional Services to compliment your solution requirements
  

Using a methodology that’s been approved by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, we are able to estimate that Chest Agreements have saved the academic community a collective £28 million in the cost of software and data products in the year to date (figures for September 2009).