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Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

Fresh Sandwiches & Food to Go (1)

Food & BeveragesCPV 15811510 15811511
Value£444k
Awarded10 Feb 2025
Published16 May 2025
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£444ktotal contract value
median £286k
this tender£0£8.8m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Food & Beverages band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 2,386 valued Food & Beverages tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Scope of the Procurement The Catering requirement across the Council has several established areas, the largest of which is the provision of 19,000 school meals each day to mainly Rotherham based schools although there will be the requirement to deliver to several Doncaster schools and one Sheffield school.

There are also several residential care units and commercial café outlets which these contracts will service.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council aims to ensure any food provision is in-line with a healthy eating agenda to keep the community fit and healthy, as well as satisfying a variety of medical and religious dietary requirements in-line with any relevant legislation and guidance.

This contract will service sites throughout Rotherham and potentially other sites may utilise the contract if requirements arise.

A full copy of the site list is provided at Appendix 1.

There are 12 school meal sites who will have ongoing regular requirements, alongside the below sites:- • Rotherham Schools serviced by Riverside Catering • Clifton Park Café/Museum Café • Thrybergh Country Park • Rother Valley Country Park • Waleswood Caravan Park • Parkhill Lodge • Lord Hardy Court • Davies Court • Civic Theatre Supply requirement will not be limited to term time only as we support the Holiday Activities & Food (HAF) Programme and will therefore be purchasing sandwiches throughout the Year.

This will also apply to the non-school sites.

New sites may be added to this list and current sites removed as and when required by the Council throughout the duration of this contract.

This further competition relates to the supply of Sandwiches, Wraps and Food to Go, via Category 9 of the YPO Food Deal DPS (ref: 985).

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Catering requirement across the Council has

The Catering requirement across the Council has several established areas, the largest of which is the provision of 19,000 school meals each day to mainly Rotherham based schools although there will be the requirement to deliver to several Doncaster schools and one Sheffield school.

02

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council aims to ensure

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council aims to ensure any food provision is in-line with a healthy eating agenda to keep the community fit and healthy, as well as satisfying a variety of medical and religious dietary requirements in-line with any relevant legislation and guidance.

03

Supply requirement will not be limited

Supply requirement will not be limited to term time only as we support the Holiday Activities & Food (HAF) Programme and will therefore be purchasing sandwiches throughout the Year.

04

This further competition relates to the supply

This further competition relates to the supply of Sandwiches, Wraps and Food to Go, via Category 9 of the YPO Food Deal DPS (ref: 985).

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.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

ESPO / YPO / NEPOFrameworks & routes to market
This further competition relates to the supply of Sandwiches, Wraps and Food to Go, via Category 9 of the YPO Food Deal DPS (ref: 985).

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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Stage
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Buyer ref
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