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title: "Dover Grammar for Boys Catering Tender"
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# Dover Grammar for Boys Catering Tender

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/dover-grammar-for-boys-catering-tender-ocds-h6vhtk-043ca7). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Dover Grammar School for Boys Catering Tender: "Dover Grammar for Boys Catering Tender". Published status: complete. Published Value: £125,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 25 Feb 2024, 13:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Dover Grammar School for Boys Catering Tender](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/dover-grammar-school-for-boys-catering-tender-GB-FTS-106017)
- **Published Value:** £125,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 25 February 2024 at 13:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** School catering services
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ4
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £1,350,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-043ca7`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/dover-grammar-for-boys-catering-tender-ocds-h6vhtk-043ca7#tl-md)

## Description
Dover Grammar School for Boys is a very successful Boys Grammar School in Dover, Kent. It has 835 students between the ages of 11 and 19 on roll and 113 teaching and support staff. There is one busy main restaurant, POD and sixth form cafe and both facilities can be seen in the attached Photo Journal in the SQ document pack. There is also scope for an additional serving POD in a location near the sports fields. The incumbent caterer is Caterlink and the existing contract is at the end of its maximum tenure. The tender uses a two stage restricted process.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 55524000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Estimated Value:** £1,225,000
- **Description:** Dover Grammar School for Boys is a very successful Boys Grammar School in Dover, Kent. It has 862 students between the ages of 11 and 19 on roll and 98 teaching and support staff. There is one busy main restaurant, an outside POD and a separate Sixth...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Dover Grammar School for Boys Catering Tender (active)
  - Award id: `039520-2024-CCL_039-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Independent Catering**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-132242`
  - Value: £1,350,000 † (exc. VAT); ten times the procedure’s published value or more · possibly a unit error, check the notice

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Dover Grammar School for Boys Catering Tender (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,350,000
  - Signed Date: 08/11/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F039520-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-12-08T19:44:47.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T17:56:23.951Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-043ca7