Hackney New School ~ Tender for Catering Services

The successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for Hackney New School, 317-319 Kingsland Road, London, E8 4DL.

Hackney New School Trust established a four-form entry secondary school, Hackney New school, in 2013, with a particular focus on music. The school is growing year on year to a reach a full complement of 700 pupils in 2020, aged 11 to 19.

Hackney New School aims to equip students with the intellectual and emotional tools needed to lead an interesting, rewarding and diverse life, this vision is centred on four key elements; academic excellence, self-belief, intellectual curiosity and responsibility towards others.

As part of the school's vision 'eating well together' is a central part of the school day where pupils and staff eat lunch together and no packed lunches are allowed to make sure that all students eat well, affordably.

Whilst the Supplier will be responsible for recording meal uptake it will not be responsible for collecting or administering payments. As such, the contract will be based on 'cost plus' with an estimated turnover during the initial 18 months being approx. 350 000 GBP.

Hackney New Primary School:

Following the successful opening of the Free Secondary School, the Hackney New School Academy Trust gained a Funding Agreement from the Department for Education to open a new community Primary School in September 2015 with a cohort of 50 children in two Reception classes. By 2020 it is anticipated that the Primary School will have reached full capacity of 350 pupils.

The Primary School is currently on a temporary site with its own catering provision and it is anticipated that the school will move to its permanent site in autumn 2019. Consideration will be given to the benefit of merging the secondary and primary schools' catering provision.

Basis of Contract:

The School wishes to participate in a tender process with the intention of appointing a Supplier to deliver the catering provision for its secondary school. The contract is for the provision of full outsourced catering services including the delivery and management of the catering services and the subsequent purchasing of light equipment to support the requirement. The contract will commence in January 2019 and will be awarded for an initial period of 18 months, after or during which point the Hackney New School Academy Trust will consider the benefits or combining the catering provision for its Primary School. If the contract is not merged after the initial period then the contract will continue on a rolling basis until such point a decision is made. The contract will not account for sales and will operate solely under a 'cost plus' with fixed guaranteed lines on food and labour costs.

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/hackney_new_school

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 13.7.2018 (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.