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title: "Nottinghamshire County Council - Joint Venture Partner - Catering and FM"
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# Nottinghamshire County Council - Joint Venture Partner - Catering and FM

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nottinghamshire-county-council-joint-venture-partner-catering-and-fm-ocds-h6vhtk-04876e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Nottinghamshire County Council: "Nottinghamshire County Council - Joint Venture Partner - Catering and FM". Published status: complete. Published Value: £370,000,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 2 Sept 2024, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.eastmidstenders.org.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Nottinghamshire County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nottinghamshire-county-council-ons-e10000024)
- **Published Value:** £370,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 2 September 2024 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive dialogue
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Building and facilities management services, Catering services
- **Delivery Location:** UKF15, UKF16
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Official Documents:** 2 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nottinghamshire-county-council-joint-venture-partner-catering-and-fm-ocds-h6vhtk-04876e#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04876e`

## 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/nottinghamshire-county-council-joint-venture-partner-catering-and-fm-ocds-h6vhtk-04876e#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [eastmidstenders.org](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eastmidstenders.org%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nottinghamshire-county-council-joint-venture-partner-catering-and-fm-ocds-h6vhtk-04876e#participate

## Description
Nottinghamshire County Council (the Authority) has appointed a Provider to establish a joint venture to manage and operate to deliver (i) catering and facilities management (FM) services to the Authority; (ii) catering and/or FM services to schools; (iii) the County Enterprise Food Management services contract for the Authority; (iv) third party revenue growth for these services including through the management and operation of the County Enterprise Foods business. Further details can be found in the procurement documents made available with the Contract Notice (see previous publication below).
The main subject-matter of the services being procured are “light regime” services and falls under Regulations 74-76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 which govern the award of light regime service contracts. The Authority is using a procurement process modelled on the competitive dialogue procedure and the procurement documents describe this process in further detail.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 79993000
- **Delivery regions:** UKF

- **Description:** Continued from II.1.4 - The joint venture will operate for an initial period of 5 years with an option to extend to 5 years (a maximum duration of 10 years). The duration of contracts awarded to the joint venture will however vary. Additional informa...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 021163-2025-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Vertas Group Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-169029`
  - Value: £3,700,000,000 † (exc. VAT); ten times the procedure’s published value or more · possibly a unit error, check the notice

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 021163-2025-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £3,700,000,000
  - Signed Date: 06/05/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F021163-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-05-14T10:26:57.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-25T16:04:13.940Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04876e