St Thomas More R C Academy - Tender for Catering Services.

The successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for St Thomas More R C Academy.

Contract value = 1 100 000 GBP approx.

St Thomas More is an 11-18 mixed, convertor academy and part of the Hexham and Newcastle Partnership. The school serves the catholic population within the St Oswins deanery in North Shields and has an excellent reputation locally, regionally and nationally for the quality of its education, pastoral care and levels of achievement. It has been recognised by the Minister of State for Schools as 1 of the top 100 schools in England and Wales.

The school has the capacity for 1 700 students which includes up to 350 in the sixth form. There is a dedicated dining area and the school, as part of the tender process, would welcome proposals for service improvement / expansion possibly with capital investment.

In order to ensure that it continues to receive value for money, the school wishes to put the catering services out to competitive tender with a new contract to commence 1.9.2017 on the basis of a 3 year contract with the option to extend for a further 2 years.

Expressions of interest are invited from Suppliers with experience of providing catering services in this sector and with the resource to support catering services within this geographical region.

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/st_thomas_more_r_c_academy__catering_services

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 3.3.2017 (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.