Cheviot Learning Trust ~ Catering Tender

The successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for The Cheviot Learning Trust.

Contract value = £1,140,000 per annum with the total potential lifetime value of £5.7m. The initial contract award will be for 3 years with the option of 2 x 1-year extensions.

Cheviot Learning Trust educates around 5500 students across 18 schools in Northumberland between the ages of 2 and 19 and employs over 750 staff. They are a three tier Trust with some rural and small schools. The trust self-delivers catering at 17 of the schools, and the 18th school is outsourced. The trust now wishes to appoint a suitably qualified organisation to deliver catering at 11 of the 18 schools. Whilst it’s the trusts intention to award all 11 schools to a single contractor, the trust reserves the right to remove schools from this process if it is financially disadvantaged by including them.

The trust LGPS is South Tyneside, who have confirmed that LGPS will be a pass-through agreement, which is the Trusts preference.

The schools that form this tender opportunity are;

High Schools;

The King Edward VI, Cottingwood Lane, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 1DN

Middle Schools;

Newminster, Mitford Road, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 1RH

Chantry, Mitford Road, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 1RQ

OMSOvingham, Prudhoe, Northumberland, NE42 6DE

Highfield, Highfield Lane, Prudhoe, Northumberland, NE42 6EY

First Schools;

Stobhillgate, Stobhill, Morpeth, NE61 2HA

Morpeth All Saints, Pinewood Drive, Lancaster Park, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 3RD

Wylam, Bell Road, Wylam, Northumberland, NE41 8EH

Prudhoe Castle, Castle Road, Prudhoe, Northumberland, NE42 6PH

Broomley, Main Road, Stocksfield, Northumberland, NE43 7NN

Whittonstall, Main Road, Whittonstall, Consett, Northumberland, DH8 9JN

Additional Schools

There is also the potential for further schools in the area to join during the term of the contract. If further establishments join at any time, they do form part of the Service and will be contracted with on the basis of the same terms, conditions and common requirements agreed for the main Service.

The Customer offers no guarantee that further establishments will take up this Service or of final meal numbers involved.

The trusts Purpose; Our core purpose is to advance education for the public benefit. We believe that each school in the Trust family has unique qualities to share and unique challenges to be resolved. Deep collaboration is a key Trust expectation that helps us to deliver significant benefits for the students, the staff and the schools that form the Trust. Each school is stronger in the Trust family; delivering a better education for the public good than if they were outside the Trust.

The trusts Vision; Our purpose is to deliver excellent education for the benefit of all and our mission is to develop all our young people to have the opportunity to succeed.

The trusts Values; Everything we do is based around the values that we hold dear: Innovation We’re here to shape the future, which is why we all have a responsibility to be thinking about the big issues of tomorrow; Cooperation We nurture the relationships that we’ve built over many years and we know by working together we can achieve more than we can alone; Respect We take the time to understand and make decisions and have due regard for the feelings, wishes and rights of others. Excellence We will always strive for continuous improvement and will produce the best solutions and deliver the best services possible.