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Catering Services for the Orchard Community Trust

School catering services
School meals
West Midlands (UKG)
Official notice
Published value
£4,750,000
Submission deadline 4 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Orchard Community Trust: "Catering Services for the Orchard Community Trust". Published status: active. Published value: £4,750,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 4 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityOrchard Community TrustScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
Closed
4 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£4,750,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Orchard Community Trust
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Published history for Orchard Community Trust. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
Not availableNo published reports
Bid counts are not published for this buyer
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 0 active published awards; 0 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityOrchard Community Trust
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusactive
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published5 Jan 2026, 19:30 GMT
Last source update5 Jan 2026, 19:30 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationSchool catering services, School meals
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05ffb1
What is being bought
The outsourced provision of catering services to the seven schools in the trust - 5 of which are primary's and 2 of which are all through special needs schools
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £4,750,000
    5 Jan 2026, 19:30 GMT
  2. Status changed to active
    5 Jan 2026, 19:30 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    5 Jan 2026, 19:30 GMT
  4. Submission deadline changed to 4 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
    5 Jan 2026, 19:30 GMT
  5. Buyer information updated
    5 Jan 2026, 19:30 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    active
    Published value£4,750,000
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    5 Jan 2026, 19:30 GMT
  2. Submission deadline
    4 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Orchard Community Trust

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PHZW-3175-VNXR
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Documents (2)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleEstablished market, with multiple capable suppliers. The Authority has sufficient insight into models and pricing to proceed straight to tender. This is a standard managed school catering service with defined scope, performance expectations, mobilisation and evaluation. No material uncertainty is anticipated that would justify market testing.
Procedure rationaleNot published