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YPO

YPO - 000985 YPO New Food Deal

AgricultureCPV 15811300
Value£350.0m
Deadline27 Oct 2028
Published9 Oct 2024
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 9 Oct 2024790 days leftCloses 27 Oct 2028
Who to contact
Contracts Team
Contracts@ypo.co.uk
+44 1924664685

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How to submit
Open the submissions portal

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Contract value in context
£350.0mtotal contract value
median £286k
this tender£0£378.0m

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.

When this comes round again

YPO publishes Food & Beverages work continuously — 28 notices, roughly one every 55 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

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The brief

YPO are looking for Suppliers to be appointed onto a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the supply and distribution of various Food Service categories direct to YPO customers, typically for use in the education sector, NHS, public sector buildings, charitable status organisations such as housing organisations and care homes, care catering, the prison service and sheltered housing within the public sector.

The DPS is designed to meet the needs of all public sector organisations which include YPO’s internal requirements and any of YPO’s wholly owned associated or subsidiary companies.

The end customer will place the order/s with the Provider and the Provider will deliver direct to the end customer.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The end customer will place the order/s

The end customer will place the order/s with the Provider and the Provider will deliver direct to the end customer.

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

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

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
YPO are looking for Suppliers to be appointed onto a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the supply and distribution of various Food Service categories direct to YPO customers, typically for use in the education sector, NHS, public sector buildings, charitable status organisations such as housing organisations and care…
ESPO / YPO / NEPOFrameworks & routes to market
YPO - 000985 YPO New Food Deal

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.

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04a6eb
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
032328-2024
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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