Nunnery Wood High School - Tender for Catering Services

The successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for Nunnery Wood High School (the Client), Spetchley Road, Worcester, WR5 2LT.

The school is an academy in Worcester and it is a co-educational school and Science College with about 1350 students on roll. The school campus is located on the edge of Worcester surrounded by some 15 acres of gardens and playing fields which it shares with the adjacent 6th Form College. The school has benefited over recent years with an ongoing refurbishment programme or purpose built extensions including science facilities, English, Music, Art and Design, Languages and ICT. The school catering service provision has never been market tested to ensure Best Value principles are applied the Principal, Sponsors and School Governors have made a decision to tender the catering service provision.

Current turnover value is circa 315 000 GBP per annum. However, this includes approximately 74 000 GBP of sales generated through a daily meal delivery service to 3 local primary schools. At this moment in time the Client does not know if these schools wish to be included in this tender exercise but a definite outcome will be included within the tender specification.

The catering staff are currently employed directly by the Client and the successful Supplier will need to consider ABS provision regarding the current LPGS pension arrangements. TUPE Regulations including pension rights where applicable will apply to this contract.

The Client is seeking both innovation and the application of current service initiatives within the catering industry within the tender submissions and would expect as a result of this to be able to identify "Best Value" and work in partnership with the chosen Supplier going forward. The Client's philosophy is to Aspire, Strive, Achieve and the senior management team are looking for a Supplier who can parallel these 3 key drivers to develop and maximise the catering service provision going forward into the future.

(Further information is provided in the SQ Document.)

Additional information: Interest in the selection 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 Selection Questionnaire and associated documents can be obtained at: http://www.litmuspartnership.co.uk/project/nunnery_wood_high_school

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 19.10.2018 (12:00). Suppliers 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 Selection 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 Supplier'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 Contract 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.