Trinity School - Tender for Cleaning Services

The successful Supplier will be required to provide cleaning services Trinity School in Carlisle, Cumbria.

Trinity School is a large school with approximately 1 700 pupils that tries to behave as if it were a very small one, with a 'village' feel and a big emphasis on the unique importance of each individual. The school has a vibrant and thriving community, with a strong sense of common purpose and a consistent focus on high standards. The main school has modern facilities and well-kept buildings. There is a separate sixth form centre located in the original Victorian school building.

The school's cleaning services have been managed in-house for a number of years and the Client now wishes to put the service out to competitive tender to ensure that it receives best value. It is important to the Client that the successful Supplier works closely with the Client to maintain cleaning standards and provides support to the on-site cleaning team. Some of the cleaning staff have been with the school for a long time.

Expressions of interest are invited from Suppliers who have experience of providing cleaning services to schools and who have the appropriate local resource to support the school cleaning service.

The contract will be for a period of 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years.

Contract value approx. 540K GBP (3 years).

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/trinity_school

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 24.8.2018 (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.