SMART Schools Trust ~ Cleaning Tender

Concepts

• school cleaning
• liskeard
• cornwall
• term time daily cleaning
• community primary school https://www.dobwalls.cornwall.sch.uk/
• primary school
• daily term time and non-term time periodic cleaning
• periodic cleaning
• day cleaning
• secondary school

Location

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Description

The successful Supplier will be required to provide a comprehensive cleaning service, including daily term time and non-term time periodic cleaning, for the following five Schools within SMART Schools Trust: 1.Dobwalls Community Primary School https://www.dobwalls.cornwall.sch.uk/ 2.Landulph Primary School https://www.landulph.net/ 3.Liskeard School & Community College https://www.liskeard.net/ 4.Saltash Community School https://www.saltash.net/ 5.Trewidland Primary School https://www.trewidlandprimaryandpreschool.co.uk/

Total Quantity or Scope

The Trust is seeking a suitably experienced Supplier who has current experience of working within the education sector, preferably within diverse Multi Academy Trusts, comprising both Primary and Secondary School establishments, to demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of contracts of a similar size and nature. Ideally the successful Supplier will already have, or be willing to establish, a strong operational base within the South West, thus allowing for both adequate contract support and operational flexibility that is to be delivered to support the contract as and when needed moving forwards into this contract term. The scope of the contract covers all of the cleaning provision within each of the Schools’ individual environments. This includes term time daily cleaning, plus a number of weeks for holiday and periodic cleaning during non-term time to provide a deeper clean of the Schools and their buildings to ensure they are suitably prepared for the beginning of each academic term. The requirement of the School is that the successful Supplier provides a clean and functioning premises, as per the specification, that is fit for purpose at all times through delivering the guaranteed level of input hours. As part of that requirement the successful Supplier is to be proactive in the management of the contract with open lines of communication. That communication must include frequent and proactively provided management information, as well as operating an open book policy. TUPE is expected to apply and it is anticipated that some employees may be members of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and therefore the successful Supplier would be expected to gain Admitted Body Status (ABS) in order to continue contributing to the scheme. A robust level of management support must be provided by the successful Supplier to ensure that the detailed specification is delivered within the contract on a consistent basis within the contract period. A suitable support structure must be available to ensure that absences are covered at all times, providing minimal impact to the day to day cleaning of the premises. See SQ Document for more information.

CPV Codes

• 90919300 - School cleaning services

Indicators

• Bids should cover the whole contract.
• Renewals are not available.
• Award on basis of price and quality.

Other Information

The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. It will be the supplier's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents in order to submit a response by the closing date and time. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this contract notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time. The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity. The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: <a href="https://litmustms.co.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Liskeard:-School-cleaning-services./769T5MPZHN" target="_blank">https://litmustms.co.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Liskeard:-School-cleaning-services./769T5MPZHN To respond to this opportunity, please click here: <a href="https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/769T5MPZHN" target="_blank">https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/769T5MPZHN GO Reference: GO-20231121-PRO-24533690