Official UK procurement notice
Transportation of Food Containers
Authority: The City of Edinburgh Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe City of Edinburgh Council is looking to gauge interest within the market in regard to proposed Transportation of Food Containers to other schools, nurseries, and lunch clubs within the Edinburgh catchment area. The purpose of this PIN is for Prior Information and market engagement purposes only and the Council may choose to competitively tender this opportunity at a later date.
CPV: Catering services · Catering services for other enterprises or other institutions · Catering services for transport enterprises · Courier services · Meal delivery service · Meal-serving services · Meals-on-wheels services · Motor vehicles for the transport of goods · Public road transport services · Road transport services · School catering services · School meals
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) has a statutory duty to provide a hot meal…Planned
The City of Edinburgh Council (the Council) has a statutory duty to provide a hot meal to those children entitled to a free meal. The service is administered by the Council’s Facilities Management Catering Services (FMCS) which oversees the delivery of meals from 39 production kitchens to other schools, nurseries, and lunch clubs within the Edinburgh catchment area.
The Council requires a single contractor to deliver the service and would like to gauge market interest in this opportunity to shape any ensuing route to market and determine organisation’s capacity and capability to provide such a service.
More information can be found in the PIN Briefing Note. Additional information: Please see attached a draft specification of the requirement. This is not a final version and as such is subject to change. Can interested parties please complete the attached questionnaire, returning it to the email address provided by 16 May 2022.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 3 May 2022, 08:36 BST
- Last source update
- 3 May 2022, 08:36 BST
- Authority reference
CT1054- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-011294- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0332bbFind a Tender
Publisher note: Note: by submitting your interest you are agreeing to further engagement with the Council. This PIN is for market research purposes only, to determine if there are contractors with the capacity and capability to provide the service. As such, if upon reading this Briefing Note, you determine that your organisation cannot provide this service in full and does not have the capacity to do so, please ensure that you remove your note of interest from Public Contracts Scotland. The Council may contact you directly to ask further questions. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=691889. (SC Ref:691889)
How it was run
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- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 May 2022 → 27 Jun 2022 · 2 dates- Notice published3 May 2022, 08:36 BST
- Tender notice expected27 Jun 2022, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.