Burnham Grammar School - Cleaning Services

The tender project is seeking to appoint a contractor whose initiative and innovation will be welcomed for the provision of cleaning services within the facilities for Burnham Grammar School. The high quality service levels proposed, should maintain excellent standards throughout, resulting in a pleasant environment for both the pupils and staff.

The basis and rationale that the Client requires the successful contractor to operate to at all times, is being able to provide a School that is fit for purpose and that the Contractor is proactive in the management of the contract, thus ensuring that all specifications are achieved and that the frequency of cleans is as detailed within the Tender Specification.

The contract being tendered is for three years in duration from 1 January 2016 until 31 December 2018 and will be fixed price in nature, with the Contractor invoicing the Client for one-twelfth of the annual cost on a monthly basis.

It should be noted that the successful contractor will be expected to bring to the contract: innovation; new equipment; and cleaning methods, with BICSc standards being achieved, as a minimum, thus ensuring that the highest levels of cleanliness are maintained in all areas at all times and also ensuring that the productivity of the cleaning operatives is enhanced moving forward into the new contract term.

At present, there is 14 staff working 130 hours per week in total. There is also a cleaning supervisor working 12.5 hours per week. Cleaning is done after school Monday to Friday.

The annual value of the current contract is £60,323.60 which includes pest control, window cleaning dust control mats, all periodic cleaning and washroom supplies.

In addition to the current site, we anticipate that in August 2015 (subject to planning approval) a double classroom temporary building will be installed. It is not in the current contract.

The School is currently in negotiations with the Department for Education to increase in the size of the School as the School has won funding to improve the condition of the premises. The timeline of the work and completion is fluid but if there were any increases to the footprint, there would be increases in the level of cleaning required in certain areas.

Additional information: Interest in the pre-qualification 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 closing date for receipt

of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is 14.8.2015 (12:00).

Tenderers 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. Policy documents (where indicated in the

Pre-Qualification Questionnaire) shall be uploaded to The Litmus Partnership

Limited pre-qualification website prior to this closing date and time. It will

be the Tenderer’s responsibility to obtain any necessary documents and access to

The Litmus Partnership pre-qualification website 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.