Archbishop Ilsley Catholic School ~ Tender for Cleaning Services.

The current cleaning service provision at Archbishop Ilsley Catholic School has not been market tested in recent years and to ensure Best Value principles are applied the Client has made a decision to tender the cleaning service.

The current cleaning operation is run by the Client.

The value of the current contract is 180 000 GBP and it is intended that the initial contract shall run for a period of 3 years, with the ability to extend by a further 2 years with agreement with both parties.

For the avoidance of doubt TUPE Regulations will apply to this contract.

The successful Supplier will be expected to deliver a concise and detailed method of management reporting at the end of each month, thus updating the senior management team within the school on contract performance. It is imperative that an open book policy is offered to ensure the Client has total clarity on both operational and financial performance.

The Client is seeking both innovation and the application of current cleaning techniques and up-to-date equipment within the tender submissions and would expect as a result of this to be able to identify 'best value' principles and work in partnership with the chosen Supplier going forward.

The Client has set five key objectives which should be focused upon throughout the tender process. They are:

• Ongoing savings year-on-year during the contract term.

• The contract will be for 3 years initially, with the option of a 2 year extension, depending on operational and financial performance.

• Review / suggestions to improve work methodology; suggestions to improve the efficiency of service.

• Due to the high percentage of hard flooring throughout the site, it is believed specialist equipment will be required to maintain a high standard of cleanliness throughout. Recommendations and investment of this equipment should be included within the financial submission of the tender document.

• The successful Supplier must deliver a consistently, high standards of cleanliness across the site.

A reconciliation will take place monthly to reconcile the actual operating financial result to allow the Client to see how the cleaning operation is performing financially. Any banked hours will be accrued and used to cover additional periodic cleans or credited back to the Client at the end of each financial year.

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/archbishop_ilsley_catholic_school

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 4.8.2017 (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.