Sapientia Education Trust ~ Catering Tender

Concepts

• school catering
• suffolk
• norwich
• norfolk
• diss
• current catering service annual turnover
• sapientia education trust
• catering
• education
• sapientia

Location

Norfolk Island

Description

The successful Supplier will be required to provide Catering Services for fifteen schools within the trust, six secondary schools and nine primaries, situated in Norfolk, centred around Norwich and Northern Suffolk.

Total Quantity or Scope

The Sapientia Education Trust (SET) was established in 2016 with the purpose of bringing like-minded schools together to work in partnership to deliver a world class education to pupils in Norfolk and Suffolk. The term Sapientia comes from the motto of the founding school, Wymondham College, and means wisdom. ‘Our work is cross-phase and involves a strong commitment to staff development and on-going training for all staff in our schools. We believe that collaboration and partnership work helps raise standards and we work with a range of schools within and beyond our Trust.’ SET currently consists of 7 secondary schools and 10 primary schools, educating 5,500 pupils. We range in size from the largest state boarding school in the UK, to several very small, rural schools.’ SET’s school facilities range from the very modern to old Victorian premises. Current catering service annual turnover for the fifteen schools in scope is estimated to be in excess of £1.7million per annum. The contract is likely to be for an initial 3 year term with the opportunity to extend by mutual agreement for a further two years (3+1+1). The principle aim of this process will be to realise the benefits of a single specialist service provider. This Is a key strategic project for catering that will bundle six secondary schools together alongside nine primaries of varying size, that should attract in-form education sector caterers to make confident and commercially attractive bids. Please see SQ document for more information.

CPV Codes

• 55524000 - School catering 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-Norfolk:-School-catering-services./RH6TA7FX6G" target="_blank">https://litmustms.co.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Norfolk:-School-catering-services./RH6TA7FX6G To respond to this opportunity, please click here: <a href="https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/RH6TA7FX6G" target="_blank">https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/RH6TA7FX6G GO Reference: GO-2024115-PRO-24968343