RFP QuestBeta
ClosedStage · preprocurement

Coventry University

Open Early Engagement - Coventry University Enterprises Ltd - Conference and Hospitality Services

HospitalityCPV 55000000 55500000
ValueValue not published
Deadline12 Mar 2024
Published9 Feb 2024
RegionNationwide

No value published

Timeline
Published 9 Feb 2024ClosedCloses 12 Mar 2024
When this comes round again

Coventry University has published 755 notices across all categories, and 49% of its awards go to a supplier it has used before.

Which is the argument for getting on the list rather than winning this one. The incumbent is rarely the last winner — it is the roster. See the retention odds by category →


You'll hear when Coventry University publishes Hospitality & Catering work again. One email per notice, unsubscribe in one click. We don’t use your address for anything else.

Match for your company
Sign up free to see how well this tender matches your company — the score, the signals that align, and where the gaps are.
The brief

We are looking for potential catering and hospitality service providers to partner with us to run our award-winning Conference Centre, located at Coventry University Technology Park in Coventry, and our off-site facility at Westwood Health including campus-wide Hospitality.

Prospective providers will be required to operate our conference and hospitality service provision.

To prepare for this we are conducting an early market engagement to obtain a better understanding of the current market and identify potential service providers, therefore, publishing this PIN without call for competition only at this stage.

The requirement: - Conference and Hospitality Services - Conference services including daily duty management, food and beverage provision, fine dining, and function staff were applicable. - Catering, and hospitality services to various tenants located in CUE's Technology Park and across the main campus. - Management and operation of the on-site Restaurant facility.

Our needs will include: •A high-quality service providing affordable, nutritious, and healthy hot and cold food options from both the Conference Centre, hospitality, and the on-site Restaurant. •To include an out-of-hours fine dining catering provision which may be off-site. •Catering for small to large hospitality events on a day-to-day basis across campus.

A formal tender process will follow.

If you would like to find out more about us and the opportunity above, please reply to this call for further details regarding the supplier engagement days to be held in March 2024 - giving the name/s of the representative/s attending (no more than 2) and your company/business name (registration closes at 5:00 pm on 12th March 2024), via our In-tend portal, https://in-tendhost.co.uk/coventryuniversity/aspx/Home.

We are open-minded and are interested to hear suggestions on how you believe the operation can be run.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Prospective providers will be required to operate

Prospective providers will be required to operate our conference and hospitality service provision.

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.

Buyer intelligence

Make the case to bid

Reveal who to approach at Coventry University, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.

Sign up free to unlock buyer intelligence

Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.

Deep dive · beta

The full intelligence dossier

Our agent reads Coventry University’s accounts, hunts live signals, finds the people who decide — and hands you a bid strategy plus a go-to-market influence plan, including what your team should post this week. You approve every paid step.

Sign up free to run a deep dive

Five included while we’re in beta, and the agent asks before it spends on any paid step.

Source & provenance
OCID
c62c9017-1ccf-4b79-8c0c-b72fcef33158
Stage
preprocurement · Closed
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
FRAM-1156-24-ST
View the original notice on Contracts Finder

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

Market context

Who wins this kind of work

The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.

Top suppliers & buyers in Hospitality & Catering

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.

Coventry University’s tender network

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.
Also open now

Similar open tenders

Learning Community Trust Tender for Catering Services

Learning Community Trust

Closes 12 Oct 2026Hospitality
£539,128Value

Retail Unit Provision at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Closes 24 Sept 2026Hospitality
Value not publishedValue