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The Provision of a Diverse and Sustainable Catering Service

Buyer: City of Glasgow College →

BuyerCity of Glasgow College
Statuscancelled
Deadline4 Feb 2026
Value£9,000,000
Published11 Feb 2026

What is being bought

City of Glasgow College is seeking an experienced and sustainably focussed catering provider to operate and develop food and beverage services for students, staff and visitors across its two campuses: City Campus, 190 Cathedral Street, Glasgow, G4 0RF Riverside Campus, 21 Thistle Street, Glasgow, G5 9XB

Delivery location

UKM82

Categories

Catering services 55520000

Lot details

Lot 1

City of Glasgow College seeks to appoint a forward-thinking, innovative and sector-leading Catering Provider to deliver a diverse, sustainable and inclusive catering service across both Campuses. The successful bidder will provide catering for students, staff and visitors throughout the academic year, operating a multi-outlet service that is responsive to varying demand across campuses. The Catering Service must be affordable, high quality and customer-focused, with standards that reflect best practice in ingredient quality, food safety, presentation, nutrition and customer service. The service is expected to deliver an attractive and modern catering offer aligned to student expectations and contemporary market trends. Sustainability is a core theme of the contract. The successful bidder must embed sustainability throughout all aspects of service delivery, including food provenance, ethical and fair trade sourcing, animal welfare, sustainable fisheries, plant-forward menu development, biodiversity, energy usage, carbon management, reduction of single use plastics, and minimisation of food waste. The bidder will be expected to support the College’s wider sustainability and climate objectives and demonstrate continuous improvement over the life of the contract. The contract places strong emphasis on generating meaningful social value and supporting the student experience. The successful bidder will be required to deliver added-value initiatives including modern apprenticeships, work placements, volunteering, employability activity, and collaboration with the Hospitality and Culinary Arts curriculum. Engagement with learners, including student led initiatives and menu development, will form a key element of contract performance. The College intends to establish a collaborative partnership approach with the successful bidder, based on shared objectives, transparency and joint responsibility for improvement. The successful bidder will be responsible for the safe collection of waste oil, and will be required to adopt innovative waste and recycling practices to support carbon reduction objectives. General waste and mixed recycling services will be provided by the College. The estimated contract value represents indicative projected turnover generated by the successful bidder from catering sales, based on historic trading data. It does not represent expenditure by the College.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Implementation & Mobilisation — 3%
Workforce Management (TUPE, Recruitment,Fair Work,EDI,Modern Slavery) — 3%
Training, Competence & Development — 3%
Contract Management & Governance — 5%
KPI Management & Performance Monitoring — 2.5%
Quality Assurance & Audit — 2%
Operational Delivery - Vision & Approach — 5%
Food Concepts & Menus — 5%
Hospitality & Events (Inc. Summer Schools) — 2%
Marketing & Promotion — 2.5%
Technology & Innovation — 2%
Continous Improvement & Service Excellence — 3%
Customer Experience & Engagement — 2%
Health, Nutrition & Wellbeing — 2%
Sustainability & Net Zero Delivery — 5%
Carbon Reduction & Reporting — 3%
Community Benefits & Added Value — 3%
Site Visit — 2.5%
Presentation — 2.5%
Total College Return — 10
Tarriffs — 15%
Hospitality — 5%
Summer School — 5%
Investment — 5%

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 55. The category anchor is Catering services (55520000); 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 558704 median · 12.2 average (232 of 870 with a bid count)1.9 average (239 of 870 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer23 median · 3 average (1 of 2 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 2 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKM8243 median · 3 average (1 of 4 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 4 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)823 median · 3 average (1 of 82 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 82 with named award suppliers)Not 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 byGPA
Submission policyNot published
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.

Awards

012411-2026-CS/CoGC/25/29-1

Statusunsuccessful

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05f803
Latest release ID012411-2026
Latest release timestampWed Feb 11 2026 13:47:05 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscancelled
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
11 Feb 2026award, contract012411-2026
17 Dec 2025tender083905-2025

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 (2 releases)
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17 Dec 2025 · 083905-2025 · tender
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          "description": "List and brief description of selection criteria:\nPlease refer to Part 4 B Economic and Financial Standing of the SPD\nThe College will use the following ratios to evaluate a bidders financial status.\nBidders must confirm within their response to the relevant question within the 'Qualification Envelope' that as a minimum, 2 out of the 3 ratios can be met and what the value of each ratio is.\nThe three ratios to be evaluated are:\nProfitability - this is taken as profit after tax but before dividends and minority interests. If a company makes a profit then it is a pass for this ratio.\nLiquidity - this is calculated as current assets less stock and work in progress, divided by current liabilities. If the answer is greater than or equal to 'one' then it is a pass for this ratio.\nGearing - this is calculated as the total external secured borrowing (short term and long term) divided by shareholder funds expressed as a percentage. If the answer is less than or equal to 100% it is considered a pass for this ratio.\nWhere 2 out of 3 ratios cannot be met, the College may take the undernoted into consideration when assessing financial viability and the risk to the College, providing the bidder can supply evidence to substantiate any of the mitigating criteria. This list is not exhaustive and other criteria may be considered where proposed by a bidder as mitigating factors.\nWould the bidder have passed the checks if prior year accounts had been used?\nWere any of the poor appraisal outcomes 'marginal'?\nDoes the bidder operate in a market which, traditionally, requires lower liquidity or higher debt finance?\nDoes the bidder have sufficient reserves to sustain losses for a number of years?\nDoes the bidder have a healthy cash flow?\nIs the bidder profitable enough to finance the interest on it's debt?\nIs most of the bidders debt due to be repaid over a number of years and affordable?\nHave the bidders results been adversely affected by 'one-off costs' and/or 'one-off' accounting treatments?\nDo the bidders auditors (where applicable) consider it to be a 'going concern'?\nDo keynote (where applicable) consider the bidder to be a 'going concern'?\nWill the bidder provide a Parent Company Guarantee?\nIs the bidder the single supplier/source of the Goods/Works/Services in the marketplace?\nThe College will obtain an Equifax Report or similar financial verification system to validate the information provided.\nBidders must confirm they can provide the following supporting evidence prior to award:\nEmployers (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 10,000,000 GBP\nProduct and Public Liability Insurance = 10,000,000 GBP\nProperty/Equipment Insurance (or equivalent) - Sufficient cover for value of equipment in use"
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  "description": "Bidders may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.\nDeclarations and Certificates:\nAll certificates, declarations and questionnaires can be found within the Attachment area of PCS-T.\nAppendix A - Form of Tender\nAppendix B - Freedom of Information\nAppendix C - Supply Chain Code of Conduct\nAppendix E - PECOS Supplier Adoption Form\nAppendix J - PVG Act Declaration\nAppendix W - Declaration of Non-Involvement in Human Trafficking\nAppendix X - Declaration of Non-Involvement in Serious Organised Crime\nAppendix Y - Prompt Payment Certificate\nIn the case of an open tender this information will not be required to be uploaded and submitted with the bid, but will instead be requested by the College following the conclusion of the evaluation of the Qualification, Technical and Commercial Questionnaires and prior to the award of the tender.\nFailure to provide this information or in the event that the information provided does not support or evidence the statements made within the Qualification Questionnaire, will invalidate any bid. In this scenario the College will seek to obtain the relevant information and evidence from the second highest scoring bidder and so on, and upon verification will award the contract to this bidder instead.\nThe buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 30797. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343\nA sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363\nCommunity benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/\nA summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:\nProvide a minimum of 8 Modern Apprenticeships and 50 work experience placements for College students or local residents.\nPartner with curriculum teams to deliver guest lectures, mentoring, and live learning projects.\nCollaborate with at least three local social enterprises or charities annually.\n(SC Ref:818678)",
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