Transportation of Food Containers

Concepts

• transportation of food containers
• edinburgh
• catering services
• road transport
• goods transport
• transport enterprises
• city of edinburgh council
• purpose of this pin
• school catering
• market engagement

Location

Edinburgh

Description

The City of Edinburgh Council is looking to gauge interest within the market in regard to proposed Transportation of Food Containers to other schools, nurseries, and lunch clubs within the Edinburgh catchment area. The purpose of this PIN is for Prior Information and market engagement purposes only and the Council may choose to competitively tender this opportunity at a later date.

Total Quantity or Scope

The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) has a statutory duty to provide a hot meal to those children entitled to a free meal. The service is administered by the Council’s Facilities Management Catering Services (FMCS) which oversees the delivery of meals from 39 production kitchens to other schools, nurseries, and lunch clubs within the Edinburgh catchment area. The Council requires a single contractor to deliver the service and would like to gauge market interest in this opportunity to shape any ensuing route to market and determine organisation’s capacity and capability to provide such a service. More information can be found in the PIN Briefing Note.

CPV Codes

• 55520000 - Catering services
• 55524000 - School catering services
• 55320000 - Meal-serving services
• 60100000 - Road transport services
• 60112000 - Public road transport services
• 34130000 - Motor vehicles for the transport of goods
• 55523000 - Catering services for other enterprises or other institutions
• 55522000 - Catering services for transport enterprises
• 15894210 - School meals
• 55521100 - Meals-on-wheels services
• 55521200 - Meal delivery service
• 64120000 - Courier services

Indicators

Other Information

Please see attached a draft specification of the requirement. This is not a final version and as such is subject to change. Can interested parties please complete the attached questionnaire, returning it to the email address provided by 16 May 2022. Note: by submitting your interest you are agreeing to further engagement with the Council. This PIN is for market research purposes only, to determine if there are contractors with the capacity and capability to provide the service. As such, if upon reading this Briefing Note, you determine that your organisation cannot provide this service in full and does not have the capacity to do so, please ensure that you remove your note of interest from Public Contracts Scotland. The Council may contact you directly to ask further questions. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=691929. (SC Ref:691929)