Holland Park School ~ Tender for Catering Services.

The successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for Holland Park School (the Client), Airlie Gardens, Campden Hill Road, London, W8 7AF.

Holland Park is a highly successful and over-subscribed comprehensive school in the heart of west central London and educates 1 350 pupils of mixed gender between the ages of 11-18. It is recognised as 'an outstanding school' by Ofsted, recorded as one of the country's top performing specialist Humanities Colleges and praised in the Good Schools Guide as a school which 'has seen a steep and continuing rise in results'.

The school is profoundly committed to exacting high standards, to formality, to demanding creative excellence from its staff and students. It is a driven institution where students' success lies at the core of all planning.

The school converted to academy status on 1 September 2013 and has retained the title Holland Park School.

Basis of Contract:

The school wishes to participate in a tender process with the intention of appointing a Supplier to deliver the catering and hospitality services at the school. The contract will commence on 01 November 2017 for a period of 3 plus 2 years on a 'cost plus' with fixed guaranteed lines on food and labour costs.

Estimated contract value = circa 1 000 000 GBP over 3 years.

Objectives:

The appointed Supplier will have significant experience of delivering quality catering services within secondary school premises and should have suitable experience and expertise of successfully increasing pupil meal uptake and lunchtime sales growth.

With the experience of successfully managing the TUPE process, the Supplier should ideally have a strong operational base in London, together with an ambition and compelling attitude towards forging a congenial partnership with the school's Leadership Team that stimulates a joint determination to achieve success.

Ultimately it is important that the Supplier can demonstrate integrity with an ability to manage an efficient catering service through the application of best practice and innovation and as a result will be expected to deliver sustainable quality and 'best value' to the school.

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://www.litmuspartnership.co.uk/project/holland_park_school

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 9.8.2017 (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.