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title: "Southwark Council – Framework for nursery, primary and secondary school food service"
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# Southwark Council – Framework for nursery, primary and secondary school food service

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/southwark-council-framework-for-nursery-primary-and-secondary-school-food-service-ocds-h6vhtk-04c103). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Southwark Council: "Southwark Council – Framework for nursery, primary and secondary school food service". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: £4,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Southwark Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/london-borough-of-southwark-ons-e09000028)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** £4,000,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** School catering services
- **Delivery Location:** UKI6
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04c103`

## 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/southwark-council-framework-for-nursery-primary-and-secondary-school-food-service-ocds-h6vhtk-04c103#tl-md)

## Description
Southwark Council intends to undertake a procurement exercise to implement a catering services framework for nursery, primary and secondary schools within the London Borough of Southwark.
The aims of the framework include:
•Continued improvement of nutritional quality and consistency of school meals 
  across Southwark
•Tackling disadvantage and reducing inequalities
•Enhancing social value through job creation for local people, payment of London Living Wage (LLW) and supporting the local economy
•Realising the opportunities for meeting the Council’s social value, food security, environmental sustainability and climate emergency agenda. 
Within Southwark, there are currently 4 nursery schools, 74 primary schools (including 3 special schools) and 25 secondary schools (including 5 special schools):
•The value of the school meals market in Southwark is estimated at around £8.3m (primary) and £5.3m (secondary) annually
•Currently, most school outsourced contracts are for a single school, rather than a group, each with different contract terms
•Most contracts are currently two to three years in duration, not all schools will require a contract at the same time
The maximum framework term will be 4 years, this includes the initial contract term and the option to extend. Estimated potential sales value of the framework is £4m over the 4 years.
Southwark Council will be conducting this process via Jaggaer. Suppliers will need to ensure that they have up to date logins via https://education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html. The Jaggaer project reference is project_9559.
Please note that the DfE's Get help buying for schools’ service is assisting Southwark Council with the publishing of the associated contract notices and procurement documentation. As a result, in the e-sourcing system Jaggaer this project will show via DfE's published opportunities.  
Information on lots and award criteria will be available when the tender is published.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 55524000
- **Delivery regions:** UKI

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F038545-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-11-29T09:48:17.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-30T07:41:12.966Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04c103