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THE LITMUS PARTNERSHIP LTD

Colton Hills Community School - Tender for Catering Services.

HospitalityCPV 55000000 55500000 55520000
Value£680k
Awarded6 Oct 2016
Published15 May 2017
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£680ktotal contract value
median £606k
this tender£0£7.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Hospitality & Catering band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 3,335 valued Hospitality & Catering tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The successful tenderer will be required to provide catering services at Colton Hills Community School.

Full details in relation to Colton Hills Community School can be found at: http://coltonhills.co.uk/ The latest Ofsted report finding may be viewed at: http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/104395 The catering service provision at Colton Hills Community School has not been market tested in the last 4 years and to ensure Best Value principles are applied the Head Teacher and School Governors have made a decision to tender the catering service.

Previous to the incumbent contractor the catering service provision was managed by Wolverhampton DSO.

Therefore, the successful contractor needs to offer an Admitted Body Status pension arrangement to those staff that were employed by the Council and transferred over to the incumbent contractor on contract award.

Current roll numbers are circa 950 students including 150 Sixth Formers.

In addition to this there are 100 teaching and support staff.

Please note that this is a multi-cultural school and this should be considered when reviewing and considering the food offer.

Current turnover figures are circa 140 000 GBP - 150 000 GBP per annum including Free School meals.

Current uptake levels are above 65 % and the School firmly believes that with improved choice and quality there is a real opportunity to increase this level of uptake.

The successful contractor will be expected to deliver a concise and detailed method of management reporting at the end of each month, thus updating the senior management team within the School on contract performance.

It is imperative that an open book policy is offered to ensure the School has total clarity on financial performance.

We are seeking both innovation and the application of current food trends within the tender submissions and would expect as a result of this to be able to identify ‘best value’ and work in partnership with the chosen contractor going forward.

The contract will be for 3 years with the option of a 2 year extension depending on the level of service delivered during the initial 3 year term.

Further information is available within the PQQ documentation.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The successful tenderer will be required

The successful tenderer will be required to provide catering services at Colton Hills Community School.

02

The catering service provision at Colton Hills

The catering service provision at Colton Hills Community School has not been market tested in the last 4 years and to ensure Best Value principles are applied the Head Teacher and School Governors have made a decision to tender the catering service.

03

Therefore, the successful contractor needs to offer

Therefore, the successful contractor needs to offer an Admitted Body Status pension arrangement to those staff that were employed by the Council and transferred over to the incumbent contractor on contract award.

04

In addition to this there are 100

In addition to this there are 100 teaching and support staff.

05

The successful contractor will be expected

The successful contractor will be expected to deliver a concise and detailed method of management reporting at the end of each month, thus updating the senior management team within the School on contract performance.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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OCID
8ed6259d-c07b-4cf9-96c6-908009f5d045
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
Contracts Finder
Buyer ref
2017/S 086-168226
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