The Supply of Catering Equipment

BACKGROUND In April 15 the MOD signed a contract with Leidos Europe Ltd to provide the procurement and inventory management of commodity items (as well as the storage and distribution services) historically provided in-house by the Logistic Commodities and Services Operating Centre.

Leidos, working with the MOD, will transform the way these services are delivered to ensure requirements continue to be met whilst providing best value for money for the department.

The organisation delivering these services is known as Team Leidos.

FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS Team Leidos would like to make interested suppliers aware that it intends next year to invite tenders for its Catering Supplies and Tableware requirement with a view to awarding Contract(s) that will commence in early 2018.

Team Leidos intends to invite tenders to bid against approximately 650 items.

The requirement covers a wide range of products covering Cookware, Tableware, Catering Probes, Fabricated Equipment, Consumables and Electrical Catering items.

Some of the items will be required to comply with specified British Standards.

PROCESS Team Leidos wishes to stimulate interest, information and views across the Catering market for the supply of this requirement via this Request for Information (RFI) together with other companies whom Leidos believes may be able to provide useful intelligence on our requirement.

To aid your consideration a sample list of our current requirement can be provided on request by E-Mail using the point(s) of contact within this bulletin.

Team Leidos is seeking information / views and would be grateful if you could answer the questions which are detailed in the additional text of this notice