Abbeyfield Care Home, Clitheroe ~ Tender for Catering Services.

The successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for Abbeyfield Care Home, Clitheroe.

Abbeyfield Lancashire Extra Care Society Ltd is a registered society affiliated to the Abbeyfield National Society and as such a not for profit organisation.

Abbeyfield Clitheroe Care Home is situated on the outskirts of Clitheroe and consists of 28 ensuite rooms and a dedicated dementia unit caring for up to 11 residents.

There is a spacious dining room where residents are served breakfast, lunch and evening meal 7 days a week 52 weeks a year. Morning and afternoon refreshments are also made available in the coffee lounge or conservatory.

There are also occasional visitor meal and hospitality requirements.

The Home is keen to ensure that its residents receive a high standard of meal experience with dishes thoughtfully prepared using quality ingredients.

The contract will be awarded for an initial period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years.

Additional information: Interest in the procurement process should be expressed via email only to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk clearly stating within this email which contract / notice you are referring to. Please also provide, as a minimum, a contact name, full company postal address and telephone number.

After interest has been expressed to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk login details will be provided to you and the associated documents can be obtained at: https://ltms.litmuspartnership.co.uk/

The closing date for receipt of tender submissions is 8.5.2017 (12:00). Tenderers are required to ensure that documents are obtained and submissions made via https://ltms.litmuspartnership.co.uk/ by the above closing date and time.

Documents in respect of economic / financial standing (where requested and indicated in the procurement documents) shall be provided as part of tender submissions to https://ltms.litmuspartnership.co.uk/ by the above closing date and time.

It will be the Tenderer'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 OJEU 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.