Corfe Hills School - Catering Services

The successful tenderer will be required to provide catering services at Corfe Hills School. Corfe Hills School is an Academy formed in April 2011 for students from Year 9 and includes a vibrant sixth form. There are currently 930 students in Years 9 – 11 and 400 in the Sixth Form but the capacity of the school is 1719 and it is anticipated that numbers will rise to this level within the period of the contract. There are approximately 200 staff on site each day. The school buildings were purpose built in 1976 and the main kitchen has changed little since this time. The catering services are contracted to Chartwells at present, and there are currently three catering outlets: • Choices Café ~ seating 80, including a servery from the kitchen • Snack Shack ~ adjacent to Choices Café • Shades Café ~ seating 60 for sixth formers only; located on the first floor with a hot servery for food which is cooked in the main kitchen. The contract being tendered is for a minimum five year duration from 1 August 2016 and we are inviting option proposals for longer periods to a maximum of 10 years where this enables a higher level of investment. The provision will cover all catering services within the school, which currently includes: breakfast, mid-morning break and lunch. There may be an opportunity to expand this to provide hospitality for school events. Corfe Hills School expects the successful contractor to be committed to compliance with the School Food Plan, using fresh, seasonal, locally sourced ingredients prepared on site. Commitment to other school initiatives and Government policies that are relevant to catering is also required. The School is continually seeking ways to improve and develop the social environment for students and staff, to give them the catering and dining facilities they deserve and need to support their learning and teaching. The objective is to increase take up of school meals which will be encouraged through cashless payment methods, reduced queuing and increased dining capacity. Capital investment proposals in support of these aims would be welcomed as part of the Contractor’s tender submission. The School would wish for the Contractor to consider making this investment within the existing catering facilities and at other locations on the school site.

Additional information: Interest in the pre-qualification process should be expressed via email only to [email protected], clearly stating within this email which contract / notice you are referring to. Please also provide, as a minimum, a contact name, full company postal address and telephone number.

The pre-qualification questionnaire and associated documents can be obtained at: http://www.litmuspartnership.co.uk/project/corfe_hills_school

The closing date for receipt of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is 27.11.2015 (12:00). Tenderers are required to ensure that documents are obtained and returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to [email protected], by the above closing date and time.

Documents in respect of economic / financial standing (where indicated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire) shall be returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to [email protected], by the above closing date and time.

It will be the Tenderer's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents in order to submit a response by the closing date and time.

The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this OJEU notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time.

The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity.

The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid.