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Meals on Wheels

Buyer: Tower Hamlets →

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BuyerTower Hamlets
StatusClosed
Deadline10 Jul 2026
Value£3,000,000
Published10 Jun 2026

What is being bought

This service will provide a selected group of residents with daily, nutritious hot meals delivered straight to their homes, primarily to address food insecurity and, secondarily, to ease social isolation. Therefore, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is seeking a food supplier with a proven track record, within the borough or direct neighbouring boroughs, with the logistical capacity to sustain a reliable, high-quality delivery service. All meals must meet rigorous nutritional standards and accommodate a wide range of dietary and cultural requirements, while offering residents daily choice and flexibility in meal selection.

Delivery location

UKI, GB

Categories

Catering services 55520000Welfare services not delivered through residential institutions 85312400

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£3,000,000
Contract periodFrom 12 Oct 2026 to 12 Oct 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality and Social Value — Written quality responses = 50% Food tasting = 10% Social Value = 10% (70%)
Price (30%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Catering services, Welfare services not delivered through residential institutionsNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 55. The category anchor is Catering services (55520000); 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 552,3924 median · 12.4 average (930 of 2,392 with a bid count)1.8 average (964 of 2,392 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI1584 median · 15.8 average (70 of 158 with a bid count)1.6 average (70 of 158 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)2431 median · 1 average (1 of 243 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 243 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 requirementYes
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyallowed
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.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06640e
Latest release ID054577-2026
Latest release timestampWed Jun 10 2026 09:14:48 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/054577-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-07-10T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-07-01T17:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-09-08T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailsAll bidders need to be registered on Proactis/Due North in order to access this opportunity through the London Tenders portal. https://www.londontenders.org
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£3,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
10 Jun 2026tenderUpdate054577-2026
10 Jun 2026tender054566-2026
6 Mar 2026planning020345-2026

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 (3 releases)
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10 Jun 2026 · 054566-2026 · tender
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6 Mar 2026 · 020345-2026 · planning
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    "description": "This service will provide a selected group of residents with daily, nutritious hot meals delivered straight to their homes, primarily to address food insecurity and, secondarily, to ease social isolation. Therefore, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is seeking a food supplier with a proven track record, within the borough or direct neighbouring boroughs, with the logistical capacity to sustain a reliable, high-quality delivery service. All meals must meet rigorous nutritional standards and accommodate a wide range of dietary and cultural requirements, while offering residents daily choice and flexibility in meal selection. \nThis is for a 3 year contract.",
    "communication": {
      "futureNoticeDate": "2026-04-15T23:59:59+01:00"
    },
    "aboveThreshold": true,
    "mainProcurementCategory": "services"
  },
  "parties": [
    {
      "id": "GB-PPON-PQBL-2673-MVYG",
      "name": "Tower Hamlets",
      "roles": [
        "buyer"
      ],
      "address": {
        "region": "UKI42",
        "country": "GB",
        "locality": "London",
        "postalCode": "E1 1BJ",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "New Town Hall"
      },
      "details": {
        "url": "http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk",
        "classifications": [
          {
            "id": "publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment",
            "scheme": "UK_CA_TYPE",
            "description": "Public authority - sub-central government"
          }
        ]
      },
      "identifier": {
        "id": "PQBL-2673-MVYG",
        "scheme": "GB-PPON"
      },
      "contactPoint": {
        "name": "Morgan Hughes",
        "email": "Morgan.Hughes@towerhamlets.gov.uk",
        "telephone": "+44 2073644099"
      }
    }
  ],
  "language": "en",
  "planning": {
    "documents": [
      {
        "id": "020345-2026",
        "url": "https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/020345-2026",
        "format": "text/html",
        "noticeType": "UK2",
        "description": "Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender",
        "documentType": "marketEngagementNotice",
        "datePublished": "2026-03-06T12:30:06Z"
      }
    ],
    "milestones": [
      {
        "id": "engagement",
        "type": "engagement",
        "status": "scheduled",
        "dueDate": "2026-03-27T23:59:59+00:00",
        "description": "The purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice is to provide advance notice to the marketplace for the upcoming tender opportunity. The intention of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets is to engage with potential providers to help the Council understand the current market and to help develop a robust and attractive tender and to identify interested providers to ensure the submission of strong bids.\nProviders wishing to participate in this market engagement exercise should register their interest free of charge via the Proactis Procurement Portal www.londontenders.org (Project Reference No. DN804600) where the Market Engagement Brief containing further details, along with the questions, will be available.\nSuppliers should submit their responses to the questions via the Proactis message function no later than 5pm on Friday 27th March 2026.  "
      }
    ]
  },
  "initiationType": "tender"
}