The Yare Education Trust - Tender for Catering Services.

The Yare Education Trust is a collaborative group of school communities, formally partnering each other in a Multi Academy Trust.

The Trust schools are united in their vision for education in the communities they serve.

The Trust's aim is to ensure that every child within the community enjoys the best possible education. We believe that students should achieve academic success, but also that the educational experience that each child receives should include helping him or her to understand the need for respect and responsibility. Equally, we believe that a good education should include activities beyond the academic curriculum such as sport, fieldwork and educational visits.

Yare Education Trust at Dussindale Primary School, where there are full kitchen facilities, and Hillside Avenue Primary and Nursery School, where the meals are currently 'delivered in', however this situation is expected to change during the contract period.

The duration of the contract being offered is 2 years commencing on 1.8.2017 and concluding on 31.7.2019.

The contract being offered within this tender will be based on a guaranteed performance basis with all free issue requirements and hospitality being recharged on consumption at 'net' food cost only.

The contract value is estimated at 360 000 GBP p.a.

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/the_yare_education_trust

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 24.3.2017 (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.