Official UK procurement notice
247400 De Montfort University Catering : Market Engagement Exercise 2025
Authority: De Montfort University (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDe Montfort University is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement with the catering and hospitality market for an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of our catering provision at the Leicester campus.
We are looking for operators to help realise our vision for a vibrant and inclusive catering offer. This will include a range of services across campus — such as food retail outlets, cafés, coffee shops, sandwich bars, hospitality for events, vending, seasonal and pop-up offers, and a campus retail shop — with a strong emphasis on quality, diversity, and innovation.
At this stage, any information gathered through this Exercise will inform internal business planning and any possible subsequent procurement process and will NOT be appraised in any future tender evaluation exercise. For the avoidance of doubt, this is the scoping phase and is not part of a formal procurement process
Please find attached a summary of the opportunity and details on how to get involved. We welcome interest from both local suppliers and larger operators.
If you provide a service or range of products that our students and staff would find appealing and exciting please contact us
If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch at : [email protected] Or register on : in-tendhost.co.uk/demontfort/aspx/Home ↗. and provide your return to the opportunity on line
CPV: Canteen and catering services · Catering equipment · Catering services · Catering services for other enterprises or other institutions · Catering supplies · Disposable catering supplies · Light catering equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 May 2025, 10:21 BST
- Last source update
- 6 May 2025, 10:21 BST
- Authority reference
247400 De Montfort University Catering : Market Engagement Exercise 2025- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-018988- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050cdaFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 May 2025 → 1 Jul 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published6 May 2025, 10:21 BST
- Market engagement24 May 2025, 00:59 BST
Complete questionnaire
- Tender notice expected26 Aug 2025, 00:59 BST
- Contract starts120 days ago1 Jul 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 May 2025, 10:21 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender