Education Ministry picks four winners for a $30m contract to supply maths resources

Education Ministry picks four winners for a $30m contract to supply maths resources
Education Minister Erica Stanford had name-checked three out of four successful suppliers prior to bid win. (Image: NMZE)
Garth Bray
Four suppliers have secured a two-year $30m Government contract to supply maths workbooks and resources to schools. Scholastic’s Pr1me Maths, Numicon, Oxford University Press and Maths No Problem were named on Wednesday morning as successful bidders, with schools able to order from next week. BusinessDesk reported previously that three of the successful bidders had been name-checked by Education Minister Erica Stanford at a meeting with primary principals last month, when a closed procurement panel was still under way, and some...

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