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CBC-1809-T-TS St Andrews C of E VC Lower School Catering Services

Buyer: Central Bedfordshire Council →

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BuyerCentral Bedfordshire Council
StatusClosed
Deadline8 Oct 2025
Value£1,090,000
Published11 Sept 2025

What is being bought

St Andrews C of E VC Lower School Catering Services Please read and follow the information and guidance supplied below and within the Tender documents, this will help with your tender submission. Word count limits apply, any information going over will not be considered. Respond to ALL questions. Additional documents or information not required will be disregarded. Please note timeline with regards to questions and submission dates. All communications, correspondences and clarifications must be sent via the In-tend portal. Do not contact the Service area for information, please use the correspondence facility Regularly view the Clarification tab for updates or responses to questions received by bidders. Questions asked together with the response, will be made available to all bidders (if not Private and Confidential), this to ensure a fair and consistent approach to all. Avoid uploading your return just prior to closing deadline as you may incur IT issues and we will not accept Tender Returns via e-mail. The Council will provide as much support and information as it can to help guide you through the Tender process. If there is anything you are not sure of or need clarification on, please contact the Procurement lead using the correspondence facility within the In-tend electronic tendering system. Opting In To inform us of your decision to participate and to be able to submit a tender you will be required to Opt In. Opting In will confirm to us of your involvement and your intention to submit a tender return. Opting Out Will confirm that you are no longer interested in submitting a tender return. You will be able to provide a reason as to your decision if you wish. This will cease any system-generated communications. You will be able to opt back in at any point. Target contract commencement date: 5th January 2026 Contract term: 3 years (+1+1 optional)

Delivery location

UKH, GB

Categories

School catering services 55524000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
ValueAED 1,090,000
Contract periodFrom 5 Jan 2026 to 4 Jan 2029

Award criteria
Simple description — PSQ Pass-Fail - 60% Quality Part B - 40% Cost

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1School catering servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 55. The category anchor is School catering services (55524000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 556484 median · 13.7 average (169 of 648 with a bid count)1.7 average (175 of 648 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer5Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKH473 median · 4.1 average (15 of 47 with a bid count)1 average (15 of 47 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)633 median · 3 average (1 of 63 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 63 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimelightTouch
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05987b
Latest release ID055761-2025
Latest release timestampThu Sep 11 2025 10:51:39 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/055761-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-10-08T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-10-01T23:59:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2025-10-20T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://in-tendhost.co.uk/centralbedfordshire/aspx/Home Registration is required to access tender pack
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£1,090,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
11 Sept 2025tender055761-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
11 Sept 2025 · 055761-2025 · tender
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