Chenderit School Academy Trust - Tender for Catering Services

The successful supplier will be required to provide catering services for Chenderit School.

Chenderit School is a mixed 11-18 secondary school on the outskirts of Northamptonshire County Council Education authority and just 3 miles from Banbury in Oxfordshire. The school became an academy in 2012.

The tender project is seeking to appoint a Supplier whose initiative and innovation will be welcomed for the provision of service within the existing facilities for the 1030 students on roll and 109 teaching and support staff, with a focus on exciting new food concepts to satisfy a wide range of pupil tastes and dietary requirements. The client would wish the successful supplier to review the current range of services offered and make recommendations accordingly.

The contract being tendered is for three years in duration from 1.1.2020 to 31.12.2022 and will operate as a guaranteed performance contract, with the successful Supplier offering the Client a guaranteed return/cost per annum for the provision of catering services.

The academic year is based on a calendar of 195 days. Five days are to be used for staff professional development which means that School will be open to receive students for the legal minimum of 190 days.

The contract offered covers the scope for the provision of all school catering services, which currently includes breakfast, morning break, lunch, hospitality and free issue requirements. Free School Meals are to be charged on consumption numbers. There may be a small requirement for hospitality and this will be charged at net food cost.

Whilst the client prioritises value for money as a key objective of the competitive tender process, the governing body is not obliged to accept the lowest price.

As a school continually seeking ways to improve and develop the ethos and environment for students and staff, to give them the facilities they deserve and need to meet the challenges of the 21st Century, any consideration regarding inward capital investment as part of the supplier's tender submission would be welcomed.

Please be advised that the catering service is currently contracted to ABM Catering Ltd.

Please be advised that the Client has a minimum requirement for a supplier's employer's liability/public liability and professional indemnity insurance of 10 000 000 GBP.

Please be advised that this contract will be let on a 3 + 2 years basis.

Please be advised that there are currently 8 staff employed to deliver the catering service and there are no current catering staff in the LGPS.

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: https://litmuspartnership.co.uk/sq/chenderit/

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 7.6.2019 (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.