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Are you eligible?

Our customers include:

• local authority schools, care homes, libraries
• Hampshire County Council departments
• police, fire and rescue services
• colleges of further and higher education; district councils; independent or Academy schools; community and voluntary organisations.

To become a customer of County Supplies you must be a Non-Profit Making Organisation. Under the terms of the Local Government (Goods & Services) Act 1970 we are able to supply customers who operate other than for profit. For some specific types of organisation, eligibility applies as follows:

• Independent and Academy schools: eligible when registered as a charity and/or operating on a non-profit making basis. Click here for more information regarding our service to Academy Schools.
• Nursing and retirement homes: eligible when operating as a registered care provider on a non-profit making basis.
• Play and nursery groups: eligible if a member of the Pre-school Learning Alliance (formally PPA).
• Youth organisation: eligible if affiliated to the National Council of Voluntary Youth Organisations.
• Religious or church body: not eligible, except where community groups meet or education is provided.

Service charges

County Supplies is a self-funding unit of Hampshire County Council. It does not operate for profit, but must recover the costs of its operations. By using the direct delivery/call-off arrangements the customer agrees to the County Council arranging framework contracts on its behalf and receiving an arrangement fee from the supplier of the goods, services and/or works as consideration. Please read our Business Terms for further details.

Apply online

If you are eligible to open an account with County Supplies, please complete our online application form.