Find a TenderPast planning notice
Published 6 Feb 2024, 17:42 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Open Early Engagement - Coventry University Enterprises Ltd - Conference and Hospitality Services

Official notice

Authority: Coventry University (Education)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

Services
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 25 Mar 2024from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

We are looking for potential catering and hospitality service providers to partner with us to run our award-winning Conference Centre, located at Coventry University Technology Park in Coventry, and our off-site facility at Westwood Health including campus-wide Hospitality. Prospective providers will be required to operate our conference and hospitality service provision.

To prepare for this we are conducting an early market engagement to obtain a better understanding of the current market and identify potential service providers, therefore, publishing this PIN without call for competition only at this stage.

The requirement: -

Conference and Hospitality Services

  • Conference services including daily duty management, food and beverage provision, fine dining, and function staff were applicable.
  • Catering, and hospitality services to various tenants located in CUE's Technology Park and across the main campus.
  • Management and operation of the on-site Restaurant facility.

Our needs will include:

•A high-quality service providing affordable, nutritious, and healthy hot and cold food options from both the Conference Centre, hospitality, and the on-site Restaurant.

•To include an out-of-hours fine dining catering provision which may be off-site.

•Catering for small to large hospitality events on a day-to-day basis across campus.

A formal tender process will follow.

If you would like to find out more about us and the opportunity above, please reply to this call for further details regarding the supplier engagement days to be held in March 2024 - giving the name/s of the representative/s attending (no more than 2) and your company/business name (registration closes at 5:00 pm on 12th March 2024), via our In-tend portal, in-tendhost.co.uk/coventryuniversity/a… ↗.

We are open-minded and are interested to hear suggestions on how you believe the operation can be run.

CPV: Catering services · Restaurant and food-serving services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned
Delivery: West Midlands · Coventry University and Technology Park

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
6 Feb 2024, 17:42 GMT
Last source update
8 Feb 2024, 12:17 GMT
Authority reference
FRAM-1156-24-ST
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-004204
Classification (CPV)
Catering servicesRestaurant and food-serving services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0437b7 Find a Tender

Publisher note: A formal tender process will follow. If you would like to find out more about us and the opportunity above, please reply to this call for further details regarding the supplier engagement days to be held in March 2024 - giving the name/s of the representative/s attending (no more than 2) and your company/business name (registration closes at 5:00 pm on 12th March 2024), via our In-tend portal, https://in-tendhost.co.uk/coventryuniversity/aspx/Home. We are open-minded and are interested to hear suggestions on how you believe the operation can be run.

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified

Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/coventryuniversity/aspx/Home. ↗

Submission deadline
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Timeline

8 Feb 2024 → 25 Mar 2024 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    8 Feb 2024, 12:17 GMT
  2. Tender notice expected
    25 Mar 2024

Notice history

1 event · 3 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Buyer details updated
    8 Feb 2024, 11:58 GMT
Published amendments (2)

Link

Please note this is correct link for registering on the University's portal. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/coventryuniversity/aspx/Home

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

Coventry University

Contracting authorityEducationBody governed by public lawEducation Coventry University Priory Street, COVENTRY, West Midlands, CV15FBContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.