Official UK procurement notice
Success Academy Trust _ Leicestershire
Authority: Success Academy Trust (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSuccess Academy Trust invites suitably experienced and values?driven catering organisations to tender for the provision of high?quality school meals across the Trust. This contract represents a significant opportunity to partner with a forward?thinking Multi?Academy Trust that places pupil wellbeing, educational enrichment, and community engagement at the centre of its mission.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that every pupil has access to fresh, nutritious, and appealing meals that support healthy development and contribute positively to their daily school experience. We are therefore seeking a catering partner capable of delivering a consistently high?quality service that pupils genuinely enjoy, and which reflects the Trust’s ambition for excellence in all aspects of school life.
The successful provider will demonstrate a clear commitment to:
- Fresh, wholesome food prepared daily, with menus that are balanced, seasonal, and aligned with national nutritional standards.
- A vibrant and engaging dining experience that encourages pupils to eat well, try new foods, and develop positive lifelong eating habits.
Strong alignment with the Trust’s values, ensuring that pupils’ best interests are placed at the heart of all operational and strategic decisions.
- Becoming an integral part of each school community, contributing to wider educational, wellbeing, and enrichment initiatives.
- Operational resilience, transparency, and continuous improvement, ensuring the service remains reliable, adaptable, and responsive to the needs of pupils, staff, and families.
Success Academy Trust is looking for a partner who will work collaboratively with school leaders, teaching staff, and pupils to create a dining culture that is warm, inclusive, and aspirational. The Trust expects bidders to demonstrate not only technical competence and financial robustness, but also a genuine passion for improving children’s lives through high?quality food and exceptional service.
This tender process seeks to identify a long?term partner who will bring innovation, energy, and integrity to the catering provision, and who will play a meaningful role in shaping the Trust’s vision for healthy, thriving school communities.
CPV: School meals
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£592,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality, Integrity, Management: 60%
- Finances: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality, Integrity, Management
- Finances
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 5 Jan 2026, 09:56 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Jan 2026, 09:56 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 1 Aug 2026
- Authority reference
CA16948- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-000150- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05fefdFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 13 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 5 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
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Timeline
5 Jan 2026 → 1 Aug 2026 · 5 dates- Tender notice published289 days ago5 Jan 2026, 09:56 GMT
- Clarification questions by258 days ago5 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadline250 days ago13 Feb 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract starts82 days ago1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
- Award decision expected by81 days ago1 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published5 Jan 2026, 09:56 GMTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender