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title: "Garstang Community Academy Catering Tender"
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# Garstang Community Academy Catering Tender

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/garstang-community-academy-catering-tender-ocds-h6vhtk-04d73e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Garstang Community Academy: "Garstang Community Academy Catering Tender". Published status: active. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 4 Mar 2025, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: www.mytenders.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Garstang Community Academy](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/garstang-community-academy-urn-137342)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** 4 March 2025 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Restricted procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** School catering services
- **Delivery Location:** UKD4
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 4 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/garstang-community-academy-catering-tender-ocds-h6vhtk-04d73e#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04d73e`

## 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/garstang-community-academy-catering-tender-ocds-h6vhtk-04d73e#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [mytenders.co.uk](/out?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mytenders.co.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/garstang-community-academy-catering-tender-ocds-h6vhtk-04d73e#participate

## Description
Garstang Community Academy are seeking to procure a provider for catering services.
The provision of the service must demonstrate the best value approach and be flexible in its delivery and operation to ensure that the needs and ethos of the school are supported.
This tender process is targeted to have a catering contract in place to commence in August 2025. Please note that this process covers all catering services within Garstang Community Academy with full tender costings and proposals for the Academy for a contract start in August 2025. These details will be further explained in the ITT documents. The process will include the creation of a select bidder list following analysis of SQ documents (within which the scoring criteria is included). Following the analysis of SQ’s the selected bidders will be invited to attend a site survey and tender briefing initially planned for late April 2025. Tender responses deadline is planned as late May 2025 and it is envisaged that interviews will take place in mid June 2025. The contract will be for a 3 +1 +1 period (5 years in total including the option to extend for 1 + 1years).

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

- **Description:** Garstang Community Academy are seeking to procure a provider for catering services.
The provision of the service must demonstrate the best value approach and be flexible in its delivery and operation to ensure that the needs and ethos of the school a...

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F003062-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-01-30T10:42:29.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-23T16:40:39.332Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04d73e