Bishop Challoner Catholic Federation of Schools - Tender for Cleaning Services.

Bishop Challoner Catholic Federation of Schools consists of a separate Girls' School, Boys' School and co-ed 6th Form located on one site in Shadwell (London Borough of Tower Hamlets). There are approximately 1 500 pupils across all 3 'schools' with 700 pupils in the Girls' school, 550 pupils in the Boys' school and 250 pupils in the 6th Form. There are approximately 200 teaching and administrative staff as well as visitors to the federation.

The new buildings project for Bishop Challoner was completed a number years ago. Since then pupils have enjoyed the use of the state of the art facilities including the well-equipped food and design technology rooms, science labs, music rooms, art studios, sports hall, drama studio, dance studio and theatre. There are also 46 classrooms, some of which are set up as ICT suites, as well as a number of faculty offices and senior leadership offices. There is an executive head suite including a boardroom as well as administration and finance offices. All in all the floor area equates to approximately 11 000 m2.

The main school cleaning takes place between 18:00 and 20:00 Monday to Friday and the service runs for 52 weeks per year.

The current incumbent is Ridge Crest Cleaning Services.

There are incumbent members of cleaning staff who are members of the LGPS.

The current annual value of the current contract is 205 338 GBP.

The contract being tendered will commence on 1.8.2017, on a 3+2 years basis.

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.bishopchallonerfederation.towerhamlets.sch.uk/

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 10.3.2017 (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.