Official UK procurement notice
Catering Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Housing 21 (Public body)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAwarded via a competition on CCS Facilities Management and Workplace Services DPS.
Please refer to F01: Prior information notice - www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005376-2025/P… ↗
Facilities Management and Workplace Services DPS - CCS. DPS filters applied to support primary requirement (15/04/2025): Residential Catering Services, Hackney and Newham, Haringey and Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Camden and City of London, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham, Wandsworth, Westminster, Barking & Dagenham and Havering, Bexley and Greenwich, Enfield, Redbridge and Waltham Forest, Bromley, Croydon, Merton, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton, Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow and Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames, West Sussex (North East), West Sussex (South West)
CPV: Catering services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Contract ObjectivePlanned
Contract Objective
i. To provide a fully managed catering service, including attracting and retaining the best, trained professionals.
ii. To deliver a quality Bistro style, or equivalent in etiquette of service and delivery manner, to residents.
iii. To offer high quality fresh food and beverage choices.
iv. To achieve the highest standards in food quality choices, to promote residents' well-being, food options and experience. This includes fresh food and beverages that are prepared, presented, and served to residents in an attractive manner, which offers customers a choice, with particular attention paid to appearance, taste, texture, portion sizes, temperature, and nutritional value.
v. To enhance an excellent catering service reputation with customers, in view of expanding a catering offering to the surrounding community.
vi. To create a welcoming and relaxed 'bistro ambience' environment producing food of the highest standards that not only attracts residents and their visitors but becomes a restaurant of choice.
vii. To comply with all requirements and monitoring work as set out in the Safer Food Better Business for Caterers (Food Standards Agency): Safer food, better business for caterers | Food Standards Agency.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 17 Feb 2025, 13:51 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Feb 2026, 12:53 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-009437- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04e2afFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
Competition via CCS - Facilities Management and Workplace Services DPS
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 Mar 2025 → 3 Feb 2026 · 2 dates- Next notice expected26 Mar 2025
- Notice published265 days ago3 Feb 2026, 12:53 GMT
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 3 Feb 2026- Status changed to complete3 Feb 2026, 12:53 GMT
- Procurement method changed3 Feb 2026, 12:53 GMT
- Buyer details updated3 Feb 2026, 12:53 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compass Contract Services (UK) Ltd | £9,600,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 009437-2026-1 · Compass Contract Services (UK) Ltd
- Signed
- 16 Dec 2025
- Value
- £9,600,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeBidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Compass Contract Services (U.K) LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.