Official UK procurement notice
Pendle Vale College & Pendle Community High School and College ~ Catering Tender
Authority: Pendle Vale College (Education)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for Pendle Vale College and Pendle Community High School and College. The two schools share the same building and kitchen facilities, but food is served in different dining rooms within the site.
CPV: School catering services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The high-quality service levels proposed, should maintain excellent standards…Published value£670,000
The high-quality service levels proposed, should maintain excellent standards throughout, resulting in a new food service offer with consistent high standards of food operations within the schools. Regular customer and parental engagement will be required to ensure this is the case moving into the contract term.
These new standards of operation should meet the needs of the pupils’ moving forwards into this contract term. The current range of foods needs to be expanded along with the service provision. It is one of the objectives of this tender that the successful contractor will utilise the local supply chain and farming ”belt” in Lancashire to source all fresh produce, namely being:
•Bakery Products
•Meat
•Fruit and Vegetables
•Dairy Products
Please see SQ Document for more information.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Jul 2024, 14:05 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Jul 2024, 14:05 BST
- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-020114- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04791cFind a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Publisher note: The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. 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. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://litmustms.co.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Lancashire:-School-catering-services./R6NMMS85ZQ To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/R6NMMS85ZQ GO Reference: GO-202472-PRO-26775754
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 30 Aug 2024, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
2 Jul 2024 → 1 Sept 2025 · 4 dates- Notice published2 Jul 2024, 14:05 BST
- Submission deadline30 Aug 2024, 12:00 BST
- Invitations to tender expected18 Nov 2024
- Contract starts1 Sept 2025, 00:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Pendle Community High School and CollegeContracting authority
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria