Official UK procurement notice
DMAT - Catering Tender · UK public procurement notice
Procurement agent: Educo·On behalf of: DMAT (from the title)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEduco on behalf of the Trust will manage a 2-stage process through the mytenders portal that links to the Find a Tender Central Digital Platform.
2.1 EXPRESSION OF INTEREST
The 1st Stage of this tender is to assess the most appropriate Contractors from their expression of interest applied and on information and responses provided and submitted on the mytenders portal as requested in this Selection Questionnaire. Please see Section 4.0 for requirements for submission.
The highest scoring 4 - 5 bidders will be invited to progress to Stage 2
2.2 PROPOSAL AND FORM OF TENDER STAGE
The 2nd Stage will comprise of:
- Initial on-line Briefing session to outline key requirements, expand on completing forms of tender and answer any questions.
- Site visits to the School(s).
- Submission by Tenderers of their Forms of Tender outlining their financial proposal and responses to Technical Questions within the ITT that describe the operational support to the teams on site, and the Schools
- Submissions will be evaluated with the highest scoring being shortlisted.
- The shortlist of 3 Tenderers will be asked to present to representatives of the Schools and Educo.
- How the procedure runs: Educo Consultancy & Facilities Management are completing a two-stage competitive tendering procedure for the catering services on behalf of Durrington Multi Academy Trust comprising Durrington High School and The Laurels Primary School in Worthing, West Sussex. This is stage 1 of the process to seek potential interest in the opportunity. Educo are seeking sufficiently experienced contract catering companies to formally express their interest and engage in the Tendering process, by completing the selection questionnaire within this part of the tender stage.
- No preliminary market engagement: this will be stage one of a 2 stage process
CPV: School catering services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£2,768,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Organisations Financial status: 20%
- Operational Questions: 80%
Published award criteria (2)
- Organisations Financial status: submission of responses to section 8.0 of the SQ identifying organisational financial status
- Operational Questions: Response to questions in Section 9.0 of the SQ in relation to operational support and management
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 15 Sept 2026, 19:48 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Sept 2026, 19:48 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 29 Jan 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-087524- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06fa99Find a Tender
- How it runs
Educo Consultancy & Facilities Management are completing a two-stage competitive tendering procedure for the catering services on behalf of Durrington Multi Academy Trust comprising Durrington High School and The Laurels Primary School in Worthing, West Sussex.
This is stage 1 of the process to seek potential interest in the opportunity.
Educo are seeking sufficiently experienced contract catering companies to formally express their interest and engage in the Tendering process, by completing the selection questionnaire within this part of the tender stage.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 21 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 14 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
15 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published41 days ago15 Sept 2026, 19:48 BST
- Clarification questions by12 days ago14 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadline5 days ago21 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Award decision expected byin 94 days29 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 155 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published15 Sept 2026, 19:48 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeClients of the procurement agent
- DMATBeneficiary authoritynamed in the title
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Selection Questionnaire
- Bidding documents and specifications example agreement
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender