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THE LITMUS PARTNERSHIP LTD

Parklands High School ~ Tender for Catering Services.

HospitalityCPV 55000000 55500000 55520000
Value£1.9m
Awarded30 Mar 2017
Published14 Aug 2017
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£1.9mtotal contract value
median £606k
this tender£0£7.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Hospitality & Catering band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 3,335 valued Hospitality & Catering tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for Parklands High School.

Parklands is an 11-16 mixed, non-selective, standalone Academy located in Chorley, Lancashire.

The school is justifiably proud of its tradition as a caring, forward-looking, successful school which is constantly seeking out ways of improving upon and extending the range of opportunities it offers to its pupils and the community.

The school has approximately 1 100 pupils who are currently catered for through 1 kitchen and dining area.

There is a biometric cashless catering system in place.

The school promotes healthy eating and expects its catering partner to be proactive in offering choices that support healthy eating and in promoting healthy eating to pupils and staff.

There is also a requirement for hospitality provision, some of which may be in the evenings.

The Client is keen to ensure that best value is received from the catering contract and to this end is seeking expressions of interest from Suppliers who are experienced in managing catering services within the education sector and specifically for secondary schools.

The successful Supplier will be able to demonstrate that it has the resource and expertise within this geographic area to support the contract.

The contract will commence on the 1.9.2017 for an initial period of three years with the option to extend for a further 2 years.

Contract value (over the initial 3 year term) is approximately 570 000 GBP.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The successful Supplier will be required

The successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for Parklands High School.

02

The school promotes healthy eating and expects

The school promotes healthy eating and expects its catering partner to be proactive in offering choices that support healthy eating and in promoting healthy eating to pupils and staff.

03

The successful Supplier will be able

The successful Supplier will be able to demonstrate that it has the resource and expertise within this geographic area to support the contract.

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Source & provenance
OCID
f73dff53-97e9-4529-a6a8-03d7b01a8235
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
2017/S 142-292570
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