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Invitation to Tender For a Framework Agreement for Management of Catering Services at Learn Academies Trust

Buyer: Learn Academies Trust →

BuyerLearn Academies Trust
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published9 Jan 2025

What is being bought

The Learn Academies Trust have decided to tender their catering services to investigate the financial and qualitative benefits they could be offered through this process. The schools involved are: - Lubenham CofE Primary School Husbands Bosworth CofE Primary School Saints Andrews (North Kilworth) CofE Primary School South Kilworth CofE Primary School Market Harborough CofE Primary School Meadowdale Primary School Ridgeway Primary Academy Great Bowden Primary Academy Church Langton CofE Primary School Houghton-on-the-Hill CofE Primary School Queniborough CofE Primary School Thrussington CofE Primary School Scalford CofE Primary School Bottesford CofE Primary School Hope Hamilton CofE Primary School Richard Hill CofE Primary School Red Hill Field Primary School Blaby Stokes CofE Primary School All Saints CofE Primary School Learn Academies Trust wish to be at the forefront of school catering and as such require a modern, branded offer that reflects the leading trends in the industry.

Delivery location

UKF2

Categories

School catering services 55524000

Lot details

Lot 1

Catering services for 19 Primary Schools. Evaluation of ITT response (19 questions), weighted scoring of 26 bespoke criteria, 60/40 cost & quality

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
19 questions — 40%
Total Cost, Investment, Financial Narrtiveial — 60%

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 55. The category anchor is School catering services (55524000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 552,3914 median · 12.4 average (929 of 2,391 with a bid count)1.8 average (962 of 2,391 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKF2123.5 median · 4.1 average (8 of 12 with a bid count)1 average (8 of 12 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

000591-2025-1

Statusactive
Value£1,328,794

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-049cef
Latest release ID000591-2025
Latest release timestampThu Jan 09 2025 09:00:47 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
9 Jan 2025award, contract000591-2025
23 Sept 2024tender030320-2024

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
9 Jan 2025 · 000591-2025 · award, contract
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23 Sept 2024 · 030320-2024 · tender
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