Queen Elizabeth's School ~ Cleaning Tender

Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ School in Barnet is an 11-18 fully comprehensive state school with approximately 1200 students and 150 staff. We are proud to consistently be over-subscribed and a school of choice within the local community, with a strong reputation for educating women of the future. Our consistently high examination results place us in the top 1% of all schools nationally, which is an incredible achievement for a fully comprehensive state school. We continue to build on our strong results year on year and we are an emerging centre of excellence for a number of areas of our practice, having gained SSAT and DFE recognition.

We occupy a beautiful site with 29 acres of land, being conveniently located directly opposite High Barnet tube station. We have a range of buildings including:

•A main Victorian block dating back to 1888 (with various extensions over the years)

•A large sports centre and swimming pool

•The Meadway block which was opened in the 1960s

•The Lindani block which was opened in 2010.

Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ School prides itself on its high standards across the board and we seek to provide an optimal learning environment which will support our students to flourish. We have invested significantly on further improving our facilities and we have ambitious plans for future expansion in order to support our school to become a centre of excellence for STEM subjects.

The tender project is seeking to appoint a contractor whose initiative and innovation will be welcomed for the provision of cleaning services within the facilities for the school. The high-quality service levels proposed, should maintain excellent standards throughout, resulting in a pleasant environment for both the pupils and staff.

The basis and rationale that the Client requires the successful contractor to operate to at all times, is being able to provide a School that is fit for purpose and that the Contractor is proactive in the management of the contract, thus ensuring that all specifications are achieved and that the frequency of cleans is as detailed within the Tender Specification.

The contract being tendered is for three years in duration 1st August 2022 to 31st July 2025 with the option to extend for up to a further 2 years at the discretion of the client. The contract will be fixed price in nature, with the Contractor invoicing the Client for one-twelfth of the annual cost on a monthly basis.

It should be noted that the successful contractor will be expected to bring to the contract: innovation; new equipment; and cleaning methods, with BICSc standards being achieved, as a minimum, thus ensuring that the highest levels of cleanliness are maintained in all areas at all times and also ensuring that the productivity of the cleaning operatives is enhanced moving forward into the new contract term.

Current cleaning arrangement:

•At present there are 13 cleaning staff employed

•The current incumbent contractor is DB Services

•There are not any incumbent members of cleaning staff who are members of the LGPS

•Please be advised that the school has a minimum requirement for a contractor’s employers liability/ public liability and professional indemnity insurance of £10 million.

•The minimum annual turnover that your company must have achieved to be considered for this opportunity is £1m

•The annual value of the current contract is £140,000

•Therefore the value of the term of the contract is £700,000 (annual value of the contract x 5)

•Please be advised that the winning contractor of this tender will be required to pay the cost of this tender directly to the Litmus Partnership upon contract award, of £4,950+VAT.