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It does say "heading to 60000 schools" ..not maybe or potentially..this could be the corner we need to turn ...
https://twitter.com/dev_clever/status/1217688023749595141?s=19
Encee, if you have worked in education for 15 years, you will know that all schools run by local authorities cannot just decide to buy something fancy at a trade fair . They are obliged to use public sector procurement portals. They either put requirements out to a competitive tender for goods and services or they use a framework agreement negotiated by Crown Commercial Services (CCS).
Lenovo is an approved supplier of education laptops in UK under a CCS framework agreement, but I cannot find where DEV is an approved supplier of the Victar licence.
If you can help me to understand how DEV can sell UK licences for Victar to local authority schools or Government funded education establishments without competition, I will be minded to change my bias. Or is it that USA is a softer touch without such public procurement rules?
There has been a lot of huff and puff about no one being announced as 'customers' or take up of the product after the show in November. Having worked in education for 15 years I can tell you if you were shown a new product in November you would not be in a position to be ordering said product for several months. These sort of expenditures go through many management meetings and onto development plans which can take months to reach the point of ordering. That is also if you are an academy school. Government or local education funded schools tend to run their annual budget along the tax year so such a large investment wouldn't be able to be committed untill the following year's budget ( this coming April). I wouldn't expect them to have an idea of sales untill the summer, they can only really guess at which sales leads are converted to actual sales. What's the point in them giving out completely guess work figures....it would only give people on here something else to whine that they have done wrong. If you are in this for a quick buck this isn't the share for you to be in, this sector works at a unbelievable slow and frustrating pace!.