Buying Better Foods 2
This is a large award for Food & Beverages — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 2,386 valued Food & Beverages tenders in our corpus.
Government Commercial Agency has published 22 notices across all categories, and 45% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.
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This will be a replacement agreement to follow RM6279 Buying Better Food and Drink framework, which expires on 22/01/2028.
Of the £4.9bn, total Public Sector food spend, the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) has a market share <0.3%.
The procurement is planned as a single supplier framework (as per the current RM6279 agreement), where the opportunity for SMEs is a key benefit of the operational model, as buyers and the Tier 1 supplier can add SMEs to the supply chain for direct delivery supplies to customers at any time, via the Buyer Unique Line terms.
The framework is designed to reduce barriers for SMEs to access public sector contracts to supply food and drink.
The framework will be suitable for all Public Sector buyers including central government organisations, devolved administrations and wider public sector organisations in the United Kingdom.
What the notice asks for
The framework is designed to reduce barriers
The framework is designed to reduce barriers for SMEs to access public sector contracts to supply food and drink.
Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.
What this notice demands of you
1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.
This will be a replacement agreement to follow RM6279 Buying Better Food and Drink framework, which expires on 22/01/2028.
Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.
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- OCID
- ocds-h6vhtk-069a4c
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Buyer ref
- 045042-2026
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