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title: "Gillingham School Catering Services"
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# Gillingham School Catering Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/gillingham-school-catering-services-ocds-h6vhtk-030907). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Gillingham School Catering Services: "Gillingham School Catering Services". Published status: complete. Published Value: £387,500. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 17 Feb 2022, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: in-tendhost.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Gillingham School Catering Services](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/gillingham-school-catering-services-GB-FTS-40145)
- **Published Value:** £387,500 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 17 February 2022 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** School catering services
- **Delivery Location:** UKK25
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £236,441 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/gillingham-school-catering-services-ocds-h6vhtk-030907#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-030907`

## 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/gillingham-school-catering-services-ocds-h6vhtk-030907#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [in-tendhost.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fin-tendhost.co.uk%2Fthebuyingclub)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/gillingham-school-catering-services-ocds-h6vhtk-030907#participate

## Description
Gillingham School is one of the oldest schools in Dorset, indeed in the country. The history of how it started continues to have benefits for the school that we have today, and we hope that the spirit in which it was founded is still reflected in our culture and ethos. Gillingham School provides education for all types of young people in our area: boys and girls; rich and poor; academic, sporty, artistic, practical or caring. Students achieve across the whole breadth of school life and all its facets – they are a credit to their school, their families and themselves, and we are very proud of them.We believe in the value of education in its broadest sense:•	that may be excellence in sport, or enthusiasm for engaging in a healthy lifestyle;•	it may be the skills to play a musical instrument or a lifelong appreciation of the arts;•	some will take a particular skill or knowledge that they have learned, that is important to them;•	some will leave with a sense of what is right, of ho

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

- **Estimated Value:** £387,500
- **Description:** Outsourced catering services for one secondary school. 3 year contract with option of 2 further 1 year extensions.

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Gillingham School Catering Services (active)
  - Award id: `014242-2022-CE-02298-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Aspens Services Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-175495`
  - Value: £236,441 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** Gillingham School Catering Services (active)
  - Signed Value: £236,441
  - Signed Date: 23/05/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F014242-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-05-24T11:24:03.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T12:23:29.977Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-030907