Published date: 8 July 2025

Open opportunity - This means that the contract is currently active, and the buying department is looking for potential suppliers to fulfil the contract.


Closing: 4 August 2025, 10am

Contract summary

Industry

  • School meals - 15894210

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

tender_498195/1497672

Published date

8 July 2025

Closing date

4 August 2025

Closing time

10am

Contract start date

15 September 2025

Contract end date

31 July 2026

Contract type

Not specified

Procedure type

Other: Partnership Open Call

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Could your organisation partner with the DfE's Free Breakfast Club programme to ensure pupils start the day ready to learn?

The Free Breakfast Club programme is one of the Department for Education's flagship policies, central to the Government's mission to break down barriers to opportunity for every child. Once fully implemented, it will deliver a free breakfast club in every primary school in England, giving millions of children the chance to start the day supported and ready to learn.

From April 2025, the Department has funded free breakfast clubs in 750 early adopter schools across England, reaching ca.180,000 pupils of whom ca.79,000 are disadvantaged. This is part of a test and learn phase in advance of further roll out to schools with primary-aged pupils across England. Our clubs are fully funded to deliver 30 minutes of free childcare to working parents and a free breakfast to all pupils who wish to attend the club. But there is room to increase the impact.

We believe that additional benefits can be delivered from working closely with partner organisations to support schools in enhancing their Free Breakfast Clubs delivery.

There are many successful corporate and industry partnerships already occurring at local levels, and the Department seeks to build on this existing good practice by harnessing and coordinating to ensure equitable access at a national level. To this end, we want to start building relationships with organisations as part of the Free Breakfast Club programme.

We are seeking offers from food providers that enable participating schools to maximise the value of their food spending through deals for the schools and to ensure securing food is as easy, reliable and flexible as possible.
Attached to this notice is a Partnership Opportunity document that contains further information on this opportunity. We have also attached a Draft Sponsorship Agreement containing the applicable legal terms and conditions.

The Department will be conducting a webinar via Microsoft Teams on 11 July from 11:00-12:00 for organisations interested in this opportunity.

To register your interest in attending this event or if you have any questions, please email: breakfastclubs.partnering@education.gov.uk

This notice relates to an opportunity which is not subject to the Procurement Act 2023. Accordingly, this notice is published on a voluntary basis for transparency purposes and to encourage market interest in the relevant opportunity.

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How to apply

Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.

About the buyer

Address

Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street
London
SW1P 3BT
England

Email

breakfastclubs.partnering@education.gov.uk