Brymore Academy - Tender for Catering Services

The successful supplier will be required to provide catering services for Brymore Academy.

The Academy is a state boys boarding school. There are 307 students, of which 131 are boarders and 176 day students. In addition to this there are 104 teaching and support staff.

All boarding accommodation has either been built or refurbished in the past few years providing state of the art facilities and, through a dedicated care team, a comfortable home from home. Students also benefit from a 110 acre farm, extensive horticulture facilities including a one acre walled garden (where each student can have their own plot) and glasshouses, a foundry and forge, excellent workshop facilities, an outdoor swimming pool, a brand new teaching block, a well-stocked pond for fishing, use of a golf course and driving range, a gym and a mountain bike track all of which are set in 15 acres of countryside, bordering on the Quantock Hills.

The scope of the contract will be for the provision of breakfast, lunch, evening meal at the school and the provision of send-out lunches for 2 local primary schools. In addition to this there is a requirement to provide a catering service for summer lets.

The current annual value of the contract is circa GBP 250 000 which includes the send-out primary school meals.

The contract will commence on 5.11.2018 for a period of 3 years, with a possible extension of up to 2 years by mutual consent and on the same terms and conditions as the original contract.

The client is looking for some inward investment from the successful supplier in respect of a cashless catering system to record and control the boarding meals and allow parents to upload cash onto a card for the day students.

The school catering is currently operated in-house. Please note there are a number of staff in the LGPS who will remain on the client's payroll, the full monthly cost for which will be invoiced to the supplier on a monthly basis. Other staff will transfer directly to the successful supplier's payroll.

Additional information: Interest in the selection 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.

The Selection Questionnaire and associated documents can be obtained at: http://www.litmuspartnership.co.uk/project/brymore_academy

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 13.4.2018 (12:00). Suppliers are required to ensure that documents are obtained and returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk by the above closing date and time.

Documents in respect of economic / financial standing (where indicated in the Selection Questionnaire) shall be returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk by the above closing date and time.

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.