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The University Caterers Organisation Ltd (TUCO Ltd)

Supply and Distribution of Hot Beverage Ingredients, Equipment and Associated Coffee Shop Products

Food & BeveragesCPV 15860000
Value£50.0m
Awarded20 Dec 2019
Published7 Feb 2020
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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

Contract value in context
£50.0mtotal contract value
median £286k
this tender£0£54.0m

This is a large award for Food & Beverages — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 2,386 valued Food & Beverages tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The scope of commodities to be covered in the framework are as follows: Coffee in various formats Speciality Coffee Tea in various formats Hot Chocolate Coffee machinery (Sale/Lease/FOL and Maintenance ability) Other coffee shop items such as cakes, pastries, confectionery, etc.

Ancillaries such as branded/non-branded disposables and non-disposables Barista equipment Training It is envisaged that suppliers will be able to cover the full scope of ingredients, machinery and associated products that surround providing a coffee shop or similar function.

An ability to offer a complete coffee shop offer/experience to include: product, imagery, footprint for furniture/design would be desirable.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Ancillaries such as branded/non-branded disposables and non-disposables

Ancillaries such as branded/non-branded disposables and non-disposables Barista equipment Training It is envisaged that suppliers will be able to cover the full scope of ingredients, machinery and associated products that surround providing a coffee shop or similar function.

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