Official UK procurement notice
Collaborative Education Trust ~ Catering Tender
Authority: Langley School (Education)·Consortium: 4 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe successful Supplier will be required to provide catering services for the four schools within The Collaborative Education Trust. The Trust consists of one Secondary and three primary schools in and around the Solihull area.
CPV: School catering services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£3,267,500
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 11 Feb 2025, 12:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Feb 2025, 12:05 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-004525- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04dda3Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Publisher note: The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. It will be the supplier's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents in order to submit a response by the closing date and time. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this contract notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time. The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity. The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://litmustms.co.uk/tenders/UK-UK-West-Midlands:-School-catering-services./7754X35446 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/7754X35446 GO Reference: GO-2025211-PRO-29386550
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 21 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
11 Feb 2025 → 1 Aug 2025 · 4 dates- Notice published11 Feb 2025, 12:05 GMT
- Submission deadline21 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT
- Invitations to tender expected14 Apr 2025, 00:00 BST
- Contract starts1 Aug 2025, 00:00 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
4 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Coleshill Heath SchoolContracting authority
- Haslucks Green Junior SchoolContracting authority
- Oak Cottage Primary SchoolContracting authority
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria