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# Thornleigh Salesian Catering Tender 2025

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/thornleigh-salesian-catering-tender-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-058b4a). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** RPJ3 Group: "Thornleigh Salesian Catering Tender 2025". Published status: active. Published Value: £2,500,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 15 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [RPJ3 Group](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/rpj3-group-GB-PPON-PRYY-6263-NQHG)
- **Published Value:** £2,500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 15 September 2025 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Competitive flexible procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** School catering services
- **Delivery Location:** UKD
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 4 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/thornleigh-salesian-catering-tender-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-058b4a#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-058b4a`

## 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/thornleigh-salesian-catering-tender-2025-ocds-h6vhtk-058b4a#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission method:** www.mytenders.co.uk

## Description
Thornleigh Salesian College are seeking to procure a provider for catering services.  
The provision of the service must demonstrate the best value approach and be flexible in its delivery and operation to ensure that the needs and ethos of the school are supported. 
This tender process is targeted to have a catering contract in place to commence in March 2026. Please note that this process covers all catering services within Thornleigh Salesian College with full tender costings and proposals for the college for a contract start in March 2026. These details will be further explained in the ITT documents. The process will include the creation of a select bidder list following analysis of PSQ documents (within which the scoring criteria is included). Following the analysis of PSQ’s the selected bidders will be invited to attend a site survey and tender briefing initially planned for early October 2025. Tender responses deadline is planned as late October 2025 and it is envisaged that interviews will take place in mid November 2025. The contract will be for a 3 +1 +1 period (5 years in total including the option to extend for 1 + 1years).

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 55524000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £2,500,000

- **Contract Period:** 01/03/2026 to 30/04/2029
- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F050173-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-08-20T12:23:59.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-22T11:55:52.807Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-058b4a