Chosen Hill School Cluster – Catering Tender

A Tender Notice
by CHOSEN HILL SCHOOL

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Contract (Services)
Duration
5 year
Value
£3M
Sector
FACILITY
Published
14 Jan 2022
Delivery
01 Aug 2022 to 31 Jul 2027
Deadline
25 Feb 2022 12:00

Concepts

Location

Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath Area: Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area

Geochart for 3 buyers and 0 suppliers

3 buyers

Description

The successful Supplier/s will be required to provide Catering services for Chosen Hill, Farmor’s and/or Cirencester Kingshill Schools. • LOT 1 - Chosen Hill School, Brookfield Road, Churchdown, Gloucester GL3 2PL • LOT 2 - Farmor's School, The Park, Fairford, Gloucestershire, GL7 4JQ • LOT 3 - Cirencester Kingshill School, Kingshill Lane, Cirencester, GL7 1HS

Lot Division

1 Chosen Hill School
  • Value: £1M

The contract/s covers the scope for the provision of all catering services within the Schools, including hospitality and free issue requirements. The duration of the contract/s offered is three years commencing on 1 August 2022, concluding on 31 July 2025, with the opportunity to extend by up to an additional two years at the discretion of each governing body. The contract is offered on a ‘guaranteed performance’ basis with all free issue requirements and hospitality being recharged on consumption at “net” food cost only. The quality of food provision will be critical and indeed your organisation must be flexible enough to source bakery, meat, fruit and vegetables and dairy products through local suppliers based no more than 25 miles from the School/s. It is expected that menus will feature and utilise products in season. NB: Please note that the successful contractor/s will pay the procurement consultancy fee on award for each lot of this contract, which will be to the value of: •Chosen Hill School - £3,000.00 plus VAT. •Cirencester Kingshill School - £3,000.00 plus VAT. •Farmors School - £3,500.00 plus VAT. This fee will be invoiced immediately after the 10 day standstill period. To ensure transparency, you will clearly show within your management fee a breakdown of this fee, over the initial three year length of the contract. The total fee will be paid by the successful contractor, in full to Litmus, by no later than Friday 22nd July 2022. For further information, please see the SQ Document. Additional information: LOT 1 - Chosen Hill School To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/995WUPRXD6

2 Farmor's School
  • Value: £950K

The contract/s covers the scope for the provision of all catering services within the Schools, including hospitality and free issue requirements. The duration of the contract/s offered is three years commencing on 1 August 2022, concluding on 31 July 2025, with the opportunity to extend by up to an additional two years at the discretion of each governing body. The contract is offered on a ‘guaranteed performance’ basis with all free issue requirements and hospitality being recharged on consumption at “net” food cost only. The quality of food provision will be critical and indeed your organisation must be flexible enough to source bakery, meat, fruit and vegetables and dairy products through local suppliers based no more than 25 miles from the School/s. It is expected that menus will feature and utilise products in season. NB: Please note that the successful contractor/s will pay the procurement consultancy fee on award for each lot of this contract, which will be to the value of: •Chosen Hill School - £3,000.00 plus VAT. •Cirencester Kingshill School - £3,000.00 plus VAT. •Farmors School - £3,500.00 plus VAT. This fee will be invoiced immediately after the 10 day standstill period. To ensure transparency, you will clearly show within your management fee a breakdown of this fee, over the initial three year length of the contract. The total fee will be paid by the successful contractor, in full to Litmus, by no later than Friday 22nd July 2022. For further information, please see the SQ Document. Additional information: LOT 2 - Farmors School To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/2KB94HQY5N

3 Cirencester Kingshill School
  • Value: £925K

The contract/s covers the scope for the provision of all catering services within the Schools, including hospitality and free issue requirements. The duration of the contract/s offered is three years commencing on 1 August 2022, concluding on 31 July 2025, with the opportunity to extend by up to an additional two years at the discretion of each governing body. The contract is offered on a ‘guaranteed performance’ basis with all free issue requirements and hospitality being recharged on consumption at “net” food cost only. The quality of food provision will be critical and indeed your organisation must be flexible enough to source bakery, meat, fruit and vegetables and dairy products through local suppliers based no more than 25 miles from the School/s. It is expected that menus will feature and utilise products in season. NB: Please note that the successful contractor/s will pay the procurement consultancy fee on award for each lot of this contract, which will be to the value of: •Chosen Hill School - £3,000.00 plus VAT. •Cirencester Kingshill School - £3,000.00 plus VAT. •Farmors School - £3,500.00 plus VAT. This fee will be invoiced immediately after the 10 day standstill period. To ensure transparency, you will clearly show within your management fee a breakdown of this fee, over the initial three year length of the contract. The total fee will be paid by the successful contractor, in full to Litmus, by no later than Friday 22nd July 2022. For further information, please see the SQ Document. Additional information: LOT 3 - Cirencester Kingshill School To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/QF5762Z275

CPV Codes

  • 55524000 - School catering services

Indicators

  • Variant bids may be considered.
  • This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
  • Renewals are not available.

Other Information

Please note that whilst sharing a joint procurement process, each School is entirely independent of the others and each individual catering contract may be awarded to a different contractor, with each school ultimately making its own award decision. This tender is split into 3 LOTS – Suppliers will be required to submit a separate SQ response via LTMS for each of the LOTS they wish to participate in, links below: LOT 1- https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/995WUPRXD6 LOT 2- https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/2KB94HQY5N LOT 3- https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/QF5762Z275 ** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. It will be the supplier's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents in order to submit a response by the closing date and time. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this contract notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time. The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity. The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid. To view this notice, please click here: https://litmustms.co.uk/delta/viewNotice.html?noticeId=657398219 GO Reference: GO-2022114-PRO-19501078

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