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Vale Academy Trust

Vale Academy Trust - Catering Services

HospitalityCPV 55524000
ValueValue not published
Awarded
Published1 Jan 2022
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
Edwards and Ward Ltd

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

Who to contact
Lorraine Ashover
tenders@minervapcs.com
+44 1256467107

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

The brief

Vale Academy Trust is currently out to tender for the provision of a full daily catering service.The services at the Trust schools are currently all in-house.

The Contractor will be responsible for the provision of a full school food catering service for the pupils and staff at the Trust schools.

This will consist of morning breaks at some sites and full lunch service for each school day at all sites.

There is one Secondary School and six Primary Schools out for tender of their catering services.

Across the Trust schools in this tender there are currently 3,278 pupils on roll for the academic year 2020/2021.

Of this figure, 712 pupils are entitled to UIFSM and a further 442 to Free School Meals/Sixth Form Bursary.

TUPE is expected to apply, details of which can be found in the tender documentation.All members of the catering team are members of the Local Government Pension Scheme and all details are in the tender documentation.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The Contractor will be responsible for

The Contractor will be responsible for the provision of a full school food catering service for the pupils and staff at the Trust schools.

02

TUPE is expected to apply, details

TUPE is expected to apply, details of which can be found in the tender documentation.All members of the catering team are members of the Local Government Pension Scheme and all details are in the tender documentation.

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.

TUPE transferContract conditions
TUPE is expected to apply, details of which can be found in the tender documentation.All members of the catering team are members of the Local Government Pension Scheme and all details are in the tender documentation.

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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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02cb64
Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
000002-2022
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