CAT-10-013 Pre-Prepared Meals (Emergency Provision)

Concepts

• prepared meals
• armagh
• northern ireland education authority
• primary schools
• individual school meals kitchens
• school meals kitchen
• emergency situations
• meals
• cat-10-013 pre
• emergency provision

Location

Northern Ireland:

Description

The Supply and Delivery to individual school meals kitchens of pre-prepared meals, suitable for re-heating onsite, during the period of the Framework. Orders will only be placed from this Framework in emergency situations when there is insufficient or no staff within a school meals kitchen to provide a meal for free meals pupils.

Total Quantity or Scope

The Supply and Delivery to individual school meals kitchens of pre-prepared meals suitable for re-heating on site, as required, during the period of the Framework. Additional information: The date at II.3 is subject to change.. A decision regarding extension options has yet to be confirmed. Any options to extend will be included in the Contract Notice and Tender publication.. A list of Framework users is as follows;. This framework is let by the Northern Ireland Education Authority (“EA”) and is open to the EA, including NI educational bodies as follows and at some point during the life of the Framework these bodies may wish to utilise the agreement and should have access, at any point, with the permission of EA. This agreement is not intended to replace any current agreements that participating or non-participating institutions may already have in place.. . https://www.education-ni.gov.uk/services/schools-plus. Primary and Post Primary schools under the control of the EA, Catholic Maintained Schools, Independent Schools in NI, Irish Medium Schools in NI, both Controlled and, Voluntary Grammar Schools, Nursery School for NI (both controlled and Catholic Maintained), school meals kitchens on-site at all of these schools, and Controlled Youth Centres. . . https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/further-education-fe-colleges. Further Education Colleges in NI . . https://www.nicie.org/parents/school-finder/. Grant Controlled Integrated Education Schools in NI. . https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/northern-ireland/. Independent School in NI. . Libraries NI: https://www.librariesni.org.uk/Libraries/. . EA Teachers’ and Educational Centres. Council for the Curriculum, Examination and Assessment NI (CCEA) . Armagh Observatory and Planetarium. Middletown Centre for Autism. Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC). Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE)

CPV Codes

• 15894200 - Prepared meals

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The Education Authority in Northern Ireland has a very urgent requirement for the supply of pre-prepared meals into individual school meals kitchens across Northern Ireland. This requirement is necessary due to the significant impact that COVID-19 is having on staffing resources within school meals kitchens, resulting in there being insufficient staff on occasions within locations to prepare and serve the school meal. This has the potential to affect the Authority's statutory obligation to provide a free school meal for those children who are entitled to it. In most circumstances the Authority gets little or no notice that a kitchen will be without staff due to the virus, and it is expected that over the coming months this will become a more regular issue. When awarded this framework will provide an emergency back-up provision of pre-prepared meals to fulfil the Authority's statutory obligation on a short-term basis. It is intended that the evaluation criteria will be a combination of price and quality (taste and appearance). It is intended that the Contract Notice will be published on or around 28 September 2021. Full details of the specification of requirements will be included in the tender documents.