The Priory Learning Trust - Tender for Catering Services.

Contract summary

Industry

• School catering services - 55524000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£90,000

Procurement reference

2017/S 133-272508

Published date

21 July 2017

Closing date

9 September 2016

Contract start date

1 August 2017

Contract end date

31 July 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Restricted procedure

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

The successful tenderer will be required to provide catering services within The Priory Learning Trust.

The successful tenderer will be required to provide all catering and vending services within the Trust, which also includes all hospitality and free issue requirements.

The Priory Learning Trust is a recently established Multi Academy Trust (MAT) which includes currently the following properties where the successful contractor will be required to deliver a service and meet the requirements of the specification from the contract commencement.

It is intended that the below Schools will form the Trust from 1.4.2017, in advance of this contract commencement on 1.8.2017:

- Priory Community School;
- Worle Community School.

The contract being tendered is for 3 years in duration from 1.8.2017 until 31.7.2020, with the option to extend for a further term and will be guaranteed performance in nature.

The tender project is seeking to appoint a Contractor whose initiative and innovation will be welcomed for the provision of all catering services within the Trust. The high quality service levels proposed, should maintain excellent standards throughout, resulting in a new food service offer with consistent standards of food operations across all Schools.

These new standards of operation should meet the needs of the pupils moving forwards into this contract term. The current range of foods needs to be expanded along with the service provision. Regular customer engagement will be required to ensure this is the case moving into the contract term.

The contract currently operates on guaranteed return per year with all free school meals and hospitality being charged based on consumption and at net food cost.

The approximate cost of the contract per annum is 30 000 GBP plus VAT.

The Multi Academy Trust is expected to grow in the number of schools becoming part of the trust during this contract period, and the provision of catering services within these schools when they have joined the MAT will fall under the scope of this contract. The successful contractor will be expected to provide this service within these additional schools using the same costing model, ratios, etc. that they applied to their successful tender submission for The Priory Learning Trust 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: Further schools may be added to the contract during the tender process and during the life of the contract as detailed above.

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More information

Previous notice about this procurement

The Priory Learning Trust - Tender for Catering Services.

• Opportunity
• Published 31 July 2016

Links

• http://www.litmuspartnership.co.uk/project/the_priory_learning_trust
• Tender notice
• PQQ Documentation - The Priory Learning Trust

Additional text

Interest in the pre-qualification 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 pre-qualification questionnaire and associated documents can be obtained at: http://www.litmuspartnership.co.uk/project/the_priory_learning_trust

The closing date for receipt of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is 9.9.2016 (12:00). Tenderers 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 Pre-Qualification 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 Tenderer'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 OJEU 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.

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Award information

Awarded date

7 June 2017

Contract start date

1 August 2017

Contract end date

31 July 2023

Total value of contract

£1,946,550

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Pabulum Limited

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About the buyer

Contact name

The Litmus Partnership

Address

The Priory Learning Trust
Queen's Way, Worle
Weston-super-Mare
BS22 6BP
England

Email

pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk

Website

http://www.priory.n-somerset.sch.uk/