Workplace and classroom furniture

What's covered

The contract covers:

• office areas for desk or administration-focused activities, plus any associated facilities and amenities
• public interface areas that would be used for face-to-face meetings with clients and the public
• classroom areas for teaching primary and secondary students are included.

The lists below further detail the scope.

Seating includes:

• office chairs
• meeting room chairs
• canteen and kitchen area chairs
• couches, sofas and easy chairs.

Tables include:

• meeting tables
• coffee tables
• adjustable and non-adjustable office desks.

Office furniture, accessories and storage include:

• benches
• modern workspace options such as acoustic screens, acoustic pods, phone pods, cardboard desks for working from home, and meeting booths
• storage solutions, including under-desk units, drawer units and credenzas, drawer accessories, bookcases, cupboards, filing cabinets, filing drawers, wardrobes, and lockers
• accessories like coat stands, screens and dividers, monitor arms, and laptop trays.

Classroom furniture

Chairs, desks (non-adjustable, for group or individual work), stools, tables, lockers, dividers, floor cushions and mats, soft seating, bean bags, bookstands, drawers, tote tray shelving units, and arts and crafts stations.

Other inclusions:

• workplace and classroom space planning and layout design
• furniture fit out and installation services
• office occupancy tracking software
• furniture maintenance and support services
• furniture hire
• sustainable disposal, recycling and repurposing services
• multi-agency furniture asset management
• cable management services
• bespoke furniture for office accommodation and public interface areas
• public interface furniture (including clinical reception area furniture).

What's not covered

Some products and services are out of scope as they are covered by alternative contracts (see contract register) or because of the specialist nature of the products and services.

Excluded:

• whiteboards
• household furniture
• hospital furniture
• specialised operational furniture.

IT hardware

How it works

Invite relevant panel suppliers to submit a quote for fit outs over $100,000 through a Request for Quote (RFQ) process.

If the fit out is particularly high value or complex, you may need layout design services or installation services as well. In this case, you can use a Request for Proposal (RFP) process instead. Select the supplier who meets your needs while providing the best public value.

If you want to purchase like-for-like replacements or extra furniture related to a fit-out, you can do this directly through the supplier who managed it.

Small-scale transactions or commodity furniture purchases (less than $100,000) can be done through your chosen commodity furniture supplier. After signing up, you can optionally select a preferred supplier by filling out the form we will send to you.

Using the workplace and classroom furniture contract

Features and benefits

The panel offers a range of suppliers to choose from. We manage the ongoing performance of the panel suppliers, including relationship management. Ongoing reporting is also available to agencies.

Using this contract can help your agency comply with broader outcomes initiatives, including waste and emissions reduction, and repurposing.

Workplace and classroom furniture broader outcomes

Savings and costs

Agencies who participate in the workplace and classroom furniture contract don't need to go through a full primary procurement process of their own, which saves time and effort, and reduces costs.

Agencies can save on average 10.2% on workplace furniture and 16.45% on classroom furniture purchases compared with the best prices outside of the contract. You can save more by buying in bulk. There is currently no administration fee charged on this contract.

Joining the contract

To be able to purchase from this contract agencies and schools first need to join.

If this is the first common capability or All-of-Government (AoG) contract your school or agency is joining, you’ll first need to check your eligibility, sign a non-disclosure agreement, and create a RealMe login.

More detail on these three steps is available on the Joining AoG contracts page.

Joining AoG contracts

Eligibility

Once you have completed this process, or if you’ve joined common capability contracts before, sign and submit the online joining form. After that’s submitted, we will be in touch to confirm your participation.

Workplace and classroom furniture contract joining form

Your agency or school can then purchase from this contract.

Roles and responsibilities

Each party has responsibilities they must meet as part of every AoG contract.

Roles and responsibilities