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title: "Free School Meal Voucher Service"
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# Free School Meal Voucher Service

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/free-school-meal-voucher-service-ocds-h6vhtk-029f90). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Department for Education: "Free School Meal Voucher Service". Published status: tenderUpdate. Published Value: Value not published. Lot information not published. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** RECORDED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Department for Education](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/department-for-education-gov-d6)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 0
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Luncheon vouchers
- **Delivery Location:** Not published
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-029f90`

## 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/free-school-meal-voucher-service-ocds-h6vhtk-029f90#tl-md)

## Description
This facility would allow schools to access supermarket vouchers for use by parents/guardians of pupils who are eligible for FSM when not at school. 
The contract award is based on Regulation 32(2)(c) 
Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to provide extremely urgent deliverables. Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the DFE believes that the condition set out in Regulation 32(2)(c) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 has been fulfilled in respect of the Direct Award of this Contract.
This notice is to reflect increase in value to the contract due to extension over summer holiday period 2020.

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F006174-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-03-25T22:56:15.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T11:34:51.646Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-029f90