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School Catering Contract at The Coopers Company and Coborn School

Buyer: THE COOPERS' COMPANY AND COBORN SCHOOL →

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BuyerTHE COOPERS' COMPANY AND COBORN SCHOOL
StatusClosed
Deadline28 Aug 2026
Value£4,200,000
Published27 Jul 2026

What is being bought

The provision of a school catering service for a large secondary school and 6th form During the life of this contract, the school is undertaking a major rebuild. This will result in the catering facilities moving between permanent and temporary accommodation, to fit in with the redevelopment programme.

Delivery location

UKI52, GB

Categories

School catering services 55524000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£4,200,000
Contract periodFrom 12 Feb 2027 to 11 Feb 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality (70%)
Price (30%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1School catering servicesNot 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 551,1014 median · 10.1 average (344 of 1,101 with a bid count)1.7 average (353 of 1,101 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI522Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)148Not publishedNot publishedNot 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 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.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06d437
Latest release ID070753-2026
Latest release timestampMon Jul 27 2026 11:34:18 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/070753-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadline2026-08-28T12:00:00+01:00
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-12-21T23:59:59Z
Submission method detailsAll documents must be submitted via the Bidiful Portal as a single zip file https://bidiful-teamportal.app/p/aceadvice
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£4,200,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
27 Jul 2026tender070753-2026

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 (1 releases)
27 Jul 2026 · 070753-2026 · tender
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