Exceed Academies Trust ~ Tender for Catering Services

The successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for a number of the schools within the Exceed Academies Trust (the Client) at Copthorne Primary School (BD7 3AY), Horton Park Primary School (BD5 9LQ), Harden Primary School (BD16 1LJ) and Holybrook Primary School (BD10 0EF).

Exceed Academies Trust run Primary and Secondary schools that welcome students of all faiths and backgrounds. They are committed to developing a community of mutual respect where personal qualities are highly valued and each student has the opportunity to reach their absolute potential.

The Trust recognises its moral purpose to support schools and academies across the city and the region. They have a proven development model involves building capacity, dynamic leadership, a relentless focus on raising standards and establishing accountability, consistency and sustainability across their partnerships. The Trusts tagline is Together We Exceed.

The successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for a number of the schools within the Exceed Academies Trust (the Client) at Copthorne Primary School (BD7 3AY), Horton Park Primary School (BD5 9LQ), Harden Primary School (BD16 1LJ) and Holybrook Primary School (BD10 0EF).

Halal certified (Halal Monitoring Committee) meat is required to be served at 2 of the sites.

The Client is looking for a supplier who will be their partner within a vibrant competitive market. The catering service is currently managed in-house at Copthorne and Horton Park and by Bradford City Council at Holybrook and Harden.

Any supplier wishing to be considered for this contract must be able to demonstrate experience and depth of knowledge in the management and handling of TUPE issues.

The contract will commence on 19.2.2019 for a period of 3 years, with an option to extend on a 1 + 1 basis. The value of the contract is 900 000 GBP. However, further Secondary and Primary schools may be added to the contract as and when they join the Trust and their contracts are ready for renewal.

The successful supplier will be expected to provide the catering services within these additional schools using the same costing model, ratios, etc that were applied to the successful bid at the point of tender submission. The duration of contract for these schools will not be increased and they will join the contract for the remaining contract period that exists at the point of entry into the Trust contract.

Investment is not actively sought, but may be required to enhance and further the service, should the bidder think it requires it.

We are seeking a suitably experienced Supplier who has current experience of working within the Primary and Secondary school market place, ideally with a strong operational base within the North of England, thus allowing for responsive, contract support and management of catering staff.

(Further information is provided in the SQ documentation.)

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/exceed_academies_trust

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 28.9.2018 (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.