St George's Academy - Tender for Catering Services.

Contract summary

Industry

• School catering services - 55524000

Location of contract

NG34 7PP

Value of contract

£1,500,000

Procurement reference

2017/S 135-277176

Published date

21 July 2017

Closing date

6 January 2017

Contract start date

1 September 2017

Contract end date

31 August 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

St George's Academy was first established in May 1908, with 208 children on roll. The School was one of the first Technology Colleges; it has been Grant Maintained and was a Foundation School before becoming an Academy in January 2010.

The Academy has a history of success with students and has a waiting list for every year group. The Academy now occupies a campus of 32 acres and has over 2 200 students on roll over 2 campuses. The Academy is a comprehensive school serving Sleaford and the surrounding rural area. A 20 000 000 GBP building programme was completed in 2012 and has added significantly to the already very good facilities.

The successful tenderer will be required to provide catering services at the School.

The tender project is seeking to appoint a Contractor whose initiative and innovation will be welcomed for the provision of service within the existing facilities for the students, teaching and support staff, with a focus on exciting new food concepts to satisfy a wide range of pupil tastes and dietary requirements. The School would wish the successful contractor to review the current range of services offered and make recommendations accordingly.

The contract covers the scope for the provision of all catering services within the School, which also includes all hospitality and free issue requirements, which are to be recharged on consumption at 'net' food cost only.

The duration of the contract being offered is initially for 3 years commencing on 1.9.2017 and concluding on 31.8.2020. There will be an option to extend the contract for a further 2 years by mutual agreement. It will operate as a Guaranteed Performance Contract, with the successful Contractor offering the School a guaranteed return/cost per annum for the provision of core catering services. In addition, as highlighted above, the commercial contract will operate on a guaranteed return. Sovereignty of the cash tariff is to remain with St George's Academy for the duration of this contract.

As a school who are continually seeking ways to improve and develop the ethos and environment for students and staff, to give them the facilities they deserve and need to meet the challenges of the 21st Century, the School are looking for the successful tenderer to provide inward capital investment to refresh and rejuvenate the catering facilities thus improving on the current provision. This will be discussed in more detail with shortlisted companies at the site meeting.

The quality of food provision will be critical and indeed your organisation must be flexible enough to source bakery, meat, fruit and vegetables and dairy products through local suppliers based no more than 20 miles from the School. It is expected that menus will feature and utilise products in season when available.

(Further information is in the PQQ Documentation.)

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More information

Previous notice about this procurement

St George's Academy - Tender for Catering Services.

• Opportunity
• Published 22 November 2016

Links

• http://www.litmuspartnership.co.uk/project/st_georges_academy
• Procurement plan
• PQQ Documentation ~ St George's Academy

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/st_georges_academy

The closing date for receipt of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is 6.1.2017 (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

30 June 2017

Contract start date

1 September 2017

Contract end date

31 August 2023

Total value of contract

£1,771,808

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Compass Contract Services (UK) Limited trading as Chartwells

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About the buyer

Contact name

The Litmus Partnership

Address

St George's Academy
Westholme
Sleaford
NG34 7PP
England

Email

pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk

Website

http://www.st-georges-academy.org