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THE LITMUS PARTNERSHIP LTD

Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School - Tender for Cleaning Services

Environment & WasteCPV 90000000 90900000 90910000
Value£374k
Awarded24 Mar 2016
Published9 Dec 2016
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£374ktotal contract value
median £195k
this tender£0£5.0m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Environment & Waste band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 11,894 valued Environment & Waste tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School in Barnet, North London is a very successful 11-18 girls' comprehensive school and converter academy.

The School is proud to be 1 of the oldest state girls' schools in the country (established 1888).

The history and tradition enriches school life, as does the diversity of the local community we serve.

We have high standards and high expectations and we aim to help each and every student to succeed.

The school aims to develop confident, independent, flexible, self-disciplined and considerate young women.

The girls have opportunities in and beyond the classroom to develop their academic, sporting, creative and leadership qualities.

Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School is a vibrant and exciting learning community of which all are proud to be a part.

The tender project is seeking to appoint a contractor whose initiative and innovation will be welcomed for the provision of cleaning services within the facilities for the school.

The high-quality service levels proposed, should maintain excellent standards throughout, resulting in a pleasant environment for both the pupils and staff.

The basis and rationale that the Client requires the successful contractor to operate to at all times, is being able to provide a School that is fit for purpose and that the Contractor is proactive in the management of the contract, thus ensuring that all specifications are achieved and that the frequency of cleans is as detailed within the Tender Specification.

It should be noted that the successful contractor will be expected to bring to the contract: innovation, new equipment and cleaning methods, with BICSc standards being achieved, as a minimum, thus ensuring that the highest levels of cleanliness are maintained in all areas at all times and also ensuring that the productivity of the cleaning operatives is enhanced moving forward into the new contract term.

At present 24 cleaning operatives are employed to work approximately 1 100 hours per month, predominantly early mornings and late afternoons, 1 manager is available for 4 hours during the day, Monday to Friday.

There are also some weekend cleaning requirements (2 hours per day on Saturday and Sunday).

The School are open to new suggestions around the timings of the cleaning staff provision compared to the current provision.

The current incumbent is Servest.

There may be incumbent members of cleaning staff who are members of the LGPS, however, the current incumbent was unable to provide this information.

The value of the current contract: 138 000 GBP per annum (115 000 GBP excluding VAT).

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The high-quality service levels proposed, should maintain

The high-quality service levels proposed, should maintain excellent standards throughout, resulting in a pleasant environment for both the pupils and staff.

02

There may be incumbent members of cleaning

There may be incumbent members of cleaning staff who are members of the LGPS, however, the current incumbent was unable to provide this information.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Source & provenance
OCID
0252ac17-6df7-4963-bc94-6b44d1623c30
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
2016/S 233-424554
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