Atlas Multi Academy Trust - Tender for Cleaning Services

The successful Supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for Atlas Multi Academy Trust at the following schools:

- St Albans Girls' School,

- Adeyfield School.

The Trust

ATLAS Multi Academy Trust embodies our goal to provide 'Education for the Global Age'. This reflects our desire to deliver an outstanding educational opportunity for the greater benefit of the wider community, recognising qualities in all young people and enabling success and high aspiration for all.

The tender project is seeking to appoint a Supplier whose initiative and innovation will be welcomed for the provision of cleaning services within the facilities for each school (with potential additional schools as the Trust grows). The high quality service levels proposed, should maintain excellent standards throughout, resulting in a pleasant environment for both the pupils and staff at all schools.

The basis and rationale that the Client requires the successful Supplier to operate to at all times, is being able to provide school that are fit for purpose and that the Supplier is proactive in the management of the contract, thus ensuring that all specifications are achieved and that the frequency of cleans is as detailed within the tender specification.

The contract being tendered is for three years in duration from April 2019 until March 2022 with the possibility of a further two year extension with agreement from the Trust at this time. The contract will be fixed price in nature, with the Supplier invoicing the Client for one-twelfth of the annual cost on a monthly basis.

It should be noted that the successful Supplier will be expected to bring to the contract: innovation; new equipment; and cleaning methods, with BICSc standards being achieved, as a minimum, thus ensuring that the highest levels of cleanliness are maintained in all areas at all times and also ensuring that the productivity of the cleaning operatives is enhanced moving forward into the new contract term.

The total value of the current cleaning provision across the Trust is 202 000 GBP (total of all schools' current cleaning costs added together).

Please be advised that the Trust has a minimum requirement for a Supplier's employers liability / public liability and professional indemnity insurance of 5m GBP.

The minimum annual turnover your organisation must have achieved to be accepted onto this project is 1m GBP.

There are likely to be other schools joining the Trust during the course of this contract. As such they may have the opportunity to join this contract.

Within this tender we are looking for one cleaning Supplier to be appointed across all schools within the Trust.

(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/atlas_multi_academy_trust

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 26.10.2018 (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.