South East Cornwall Multi Academy Regional Trust - Tender for Cleaning Services

The successful Supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for the South East Cornwall Multi Academy Regional Trust (SMART) (the Client) at the following schools:

Secondary schools: - Liskeard School and Community College, - Saltash.net Community School. Primary schools: - Dobwalls Community Primary School, - Trewidland Community Primary School.

The contract will be awarded as one lot, encompassing all of the SMART schools.

The contract will commence on 1.9.2019 for a period of 3 years, with a possible extension of 2 years by mutual consent and on the same terms and conditions as the original contract. Please note the contracted-out schools might start earlier than September; suppliers will be notified if this is the case.

The client is seeking a suitably experienced supplier with current experience of working within the education market place, ideally with a strong operational base within the South West of England, thus allowing for both adequate contract support and operational flexibility.

The current turnover in respect of the above schools is approximately 416 000 GBP per annum.

Please note that some of the current staff are in the Local Government Pension Scheme; actuary reports will be provided and the successful Supplier will need to sign an ABS agreement and pay for all associated costs.

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/smart

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 5.4.2019 (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.