Food and Catering Supplies

Concepts

• food and drink
• swindon
• period of framework agreement
• swindon borough council
• food
• provision of food
• foods
• supply of food
• miscellaneous food products
• catering supplies

Location

Swindon

Description

Swindon Borough Council invites expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced service providers for the provision of food, catering, cleaning and disposable products at Council locations within the Borough of Swindon. The framework agreement is for supply of food and catering products under the Lots below. Each lot will be awarded to a single supplier. Potential suppliers can bid for one single, individual lot, or for multiple lots. Lot 1 – Fresh Fruit and Vegetables (Value of Lot 1 2018-19: £80,000) Lot 2 – Ambient, Dry and Chilled (Value of Lot 2 2018-19: £62,000) Lot 3 – Frozen Foods and Ice Cream (Value of Lot 3 2018-19: £196,000) Lot 4 – Soft Drinks and Snacks (Value of Lot 4 2018-19: £42,500) Lot 5 – Disposables and Cleaning (Value of Lot 5 2018-19: £93,000) Lot 6 – Frozen Iced Drinks (Value of Lot 6 2018-19: £5000) Full details relating to the Goods are provided in the tender documents. Period of Framework Agreement The framework agreement is for an initial period of 36 months commencing 1 March 2021, with the option of a further 12 month extension.

Lot Division

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 15000000 - Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
• 03000000 - Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products
• 03200000 - Cereals, potatoes, vegetables, fruits and nuts
• 15331100 - Fresh or frozen vegetables
• 15800000 - Miscellaneous food products
• 15220000 - Frozen fish, fish fillets and other fish meat
• 15311000 - Frozen potatoes
• 15331170 - Frozen vegetables
• 15555000 - Ice cream and similar products
• 15833100 - Desserts
• 15896000 - Deep-frozen products
• 15900000 - Beverages, tobacco and related products
• 15980000 - Non-alcoholic beverages
• 39222000 - Catering supplies
• 39222100 - Disposable catering supplies
• 39800000 - Cleaning and polishing products
• 39830000 - Cleaning products
• 39831000 - Washing preparations

Indicators

• Options are available.
• Award on basis of price.

Other Information

Swindon Borough Council has taken the decision to abandon the current tender process in relation to the procurement of Food and Catering Supplies. When creating the evaluation spreadsheet for the award stage questions, the council identified a number of errors within its published tender documentation, specifically in the Instructions to Tenderers stated evaluation criteria for lot specific questions 6.1.14 and 6.1.15 with regard to the applicable lots which bidders should respond to and Section 6 Tender Award questions where the lot specific answers were requested. The council has determined it is necessary to amend these errors only to ensure that the council can achieve its duties in relation to best value, transparency and equal treatment of all bidders as these errors could have caused bidders some confusion. The council is therefore abandoning the current tender process and will be issuing a new tender. It is currently anticipated that the new tender opportunity will be advertised on the new Find a Tender Service (which has recently replaced OJEU), Contracts Finder and the Supplying the South West portal shortly and we would encourage all bidders to register their interest and download the new tender documents to participate as this will be a new tender opportunity.