Official UK procurement notice
School Breakfast Support Provider Hammersmith & Fulham Pre-Market Engagement
Authority: London Borough of Hammersmith and Fuham (LBHF) (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFree breakfast provision at schools ensure pupils start every day ready to learn, improving behaviour, attendance and attainment.
For the past five years the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham has pioneered the delivery of free breakfast provision at our primary schools and nurseries. Providing schools with advice, food and funding to establish free breakfast provision.
This programme currently works across 33 schools, helping them to deliver over 750,000 nutritious, hunger focused breakfast meals per year though both breakfast clubs and extended provision at the start of the school day.
With the Governments national free school breakfast clubs programme starting to roll out we want to ensure that young children in our borough continue to have the best start to the school day. Continuing to support out schools, whilst integrating and enhancing the national offer.
We are looking for a Breakfast Support Provider, to manage this programme from September 2026. Providing schools with expert advice, support of running breakfast provision as well as providing direct deliveries of breakfast foods to schools.
The market engagement process will include an Engagement session in January..
The requirements of the Breakfast Support Provider contract include:
- Providing expert advice to schools throughout the school year. Supporting schools to run high quality, hunger focused and stigma free breakfast provision. This includes advice on childhood nutrition, catering equipment and communicating with children and their families on the breakfast offer and its benefits.
- Supporting schools to seamlessly integrate and enhance the national free school breakfast clubs programme as it rolls out. With enhancements supporting better outcomes for children so that no child is left too hungry to learn.
- Provide direct deliveries of affordable and healthy breakfast foods to schools that meet and exceed school food standards.
- Support the provision of breakfast to vulnerable pupils outside term time.
- Monitor and report on the delivery of breakfast provision in the borough and its impact. Including in-person monitoring visits to assess quality of provision.
- Manage additional grants from the council or government for breakfast provision, to ensure they deliver value and avoid any duplication of funding.
- The provider is not expected to staff or run breakfast clubs themselves.
The council is keen to hear from:
- Organisations with significant experience of supporting schools to develop breakfast provision, preferably in the London. That also have a track record of delivering breakfast foods either themselves or through partner organisations.
CPV: School meals · School-meal services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Hammersmith and Fuham buys Catering services (CPV 5552), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fuham’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Catering services (CPV 5552) →
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Half of these awards were announced within 59 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid42% / 16%
2–325% / 39%
4–68% / 41%
7+25% / 4%
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Below estimate22% / 23%
Within ±2%44% / 29%
Above estimate33% / 48%
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Lot #1CPV 5552Published estimate£1.7m
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1 bid16%
2–339%
4–641%
7+4%
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Dec 2025, 16:13 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Dec 2025, 16:13 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-082642- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f522Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 Dec 2025 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published314 days ago12 Dec 2025, 16:13 GMT
- Market engagement273 days ago21 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
We are keen to hear from organisations with significant experience of supporting schools to develop breakfast provision, preferably in the London, That also have a track record of delivering breakfast foods either themselves or through partner organisations.
If this is your organisation please residter your interest on our tender portal CapitalEsourcing and aim to arrange a teams meeting presentation in January date TBA.
- Tender notice expected219 days ago16 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts51 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Dec 2025, 16:13 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender