Official UK procurement notice
Birmingham Metropolitan College Tender for Catering Service
Authority: BMet College (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBirmingham Metropolitan College (BMET) is a College offering a wide range of courses for people of all ages across seven campuses in Birmingham.
Created in 2009 the College is an amalgamation of Matthew Boulton College and Sutton Coldfield College. There are currently circa 11,700 students on roll spread across 3 main campuses. The College is seeking a contractor to provide catering services at its 3 main campus, plus an additional smaller site. The contract will be awarded for a period of 3 years commencing 1st August 2025 with an option to extend for a further one plus one years, which will be measured on the achievement of agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), from Day One of the contract. The Client is seeking a partnership to continue to maximise the opportunity of the catering facilities and to further enhance the dining experience for both staff and students. There is an opportunity to consider investment proposals which can be used to update the current facilities.
CPV: Catering services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£5,400,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (6)
- Relationship Management & Support: 15%
- Clarification Meeting: 10%
- Food Quality & Variety of Healthy Meal Choices: 20%
- Customer Experience And Innovation: 15%
- Price: 30%
- Corporate, Social Responsibility & Added Value: 10%
Published award criteria (6)
- Corporate, Social Responsibility & Added Value
- Relationship Management & Support
- Clarification Meeting
- Food Quality & Variety of Healthy Meal Choices
- Customer Experience And Innovation
- Price
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Oct 2025, 14:21 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2025, 14:21 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 1 Aug 2026
- Authority reference
CA16633- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-067130- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d0c8Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 21 Nov 2025, 10:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 14 Nov 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
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Timeline
21 Oct 2025 → 1 Aug 2026 · 5 dates- Tender notice published370 days ago21 Oct 2025, 14:21 BST
- Clarification questions by346 days ago14 Nov 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadline339 days ago21 Nov 2025, 10:00 GMT
- Contract starts86 days ago1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
- Award decision expected by85 days ago1 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published21 Oct 2025, 14:21 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender