Tewkesbury School ~ Tender for Cleaning Services.

The successful Supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for Tewkesbury School.

The contract will commence on 1.4.2018 for a period of three years, with the potential for an extension of up to a further 3 years.

This contract will be fixed price in nature with the successful Supplier also guaranteeing the number of input hours to the contract as well as the quality of cleaning provision.

We are seeking a suitably experienced Supplier who has current experience of working within the secondary school or HE / FE market place, ideally with a strong operational base within Central England, thus allowing for both adequate contract support and operational flexibility that is to be delivered to support the contract as and when needed during the contract term.

The scope of the contract covers all of the cleaning provision within the school including all holiday and periodic cleans.

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 Tewkesbury School on the contract performance.

The projected cost of cleaning for the first contractual year is 110 000 GBP

Tewkesbury School is considering converting to a multi academy trust (MAT); the MAT is expected to grow in the number of schools beyond just Tewkesbury School once formed and it is expected that more schools will become part of the MAT during this contract period. The provision of cleaning services within these schools when they have joined the MAT will fall under the scope of this contract. The successful Supplier will be expected to provide the cleaning services within these additional schools using the same costing model, ratios, etc that were applied to the successful bid for Tewkesbury School at the point of tender submission. The duration of contract for these schools will not be increased and they will join the contract for the remaining contract period that exists at the point of entry into the MAT.

Please note: As stated above, further schools may be added to the contract during the tender process and during the life of the contract.

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: http://www.litmuspartnership.co.uk/project/tewkesbury_school__cleaning_services

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 25.8.2017 (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.