Published date: 23 September 2022

Last edited date: 24 October 2022

This notice was replaced on 15 February 2023

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Awarded contract (published 15 February 2023)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Children's holiday-camp services - 55243000

  • School-meal services - 55523100

  • Social work services without accommodation - 85312000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£1,600,000 to £1,900,000

Procurement reference

CHEAST001-DN631120-88810392

Published date

23 September 2022

Closing date

24 October 2022

Closing time

10am

Contract start date

12 December 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Cheshire East Council is seeking a number of providers to deliver a holiday activities scheme within easy access of families currently in receipt of Free School Meals in line with DfE (Department for Education), guidelines for this funding. The criteria of the DfE funding must be met by a suitable range of providers and the activities session must run for a minimum of 4 hours. Providers should provide a hot meal which could necessitate the use of sub-contracting.
The DfE initiative enables Councils to coordinate a programme that provides eligible young people between the ages of 4 - 16 and up to 25 if SEND applies, to receive healthy food and enriching activities during the Easter, summer and winter school holidays.
The contract term will be for 15 months initially, with the option to extend by up to 12 months. All services will be operational from school holidays December 2022. The optional extension from 1st April 2024 - 31st March 2025 will be at the sole discretion of the Council, it will also depend on availability of continued funding. This opportunity is suitable for SME and VCSFE organisation (i.e. small - medium and the voluntary - charity, faith section). For the avoidance of doubt, the Contracting Authority points out that no weight will be attached to whether or not an economic operator is an SME/VCSFE organisation when selecting economic operators to submit tenders or in assessing the most economically advantageous tender. If the Council is unable to allocate all of the available budget as part of the initial evaluations it may be necessary to re-advertise this procurement during 2023.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

22 077 Holiday Activities & Food Programme

  • Opportunity
  • Published 23 September 2022

Links

Additional text

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About the buyer

Contact name

Louise Fenn

Address

Westfields
Middlewich Road
Sandbach
CW11 1HZ
United Kingdom

Telephone

+44 1270686454

Email

louise.fenn@cheshireeast.gov.uk

Website

http://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/