Find a TenderPast planning notice
Published 3 May 2022, 08:36 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Transportation of Food Containers

Official notice

Authority: The City of Edinburgh Council (Local council)

Services
Planned pipeline value£1,875,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 27 Jun 2022from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The 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 published
Lot #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.

Delivery: Scotland · Edinburgh

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)
Catering servicesCatering services for other enterprises or other institutionsCatering services for transport enterprisesCourier servicesMeal delivery serviceMeal-serving servicesMeals-on-wheels servicesMotor vehicles for the transport of goodsPublic road transport servicesRoad transport services
+2 moreSchool catering servicesSchool meals
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM75)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0332bb Find 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

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified

Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗

Submission deadline
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Timeline

3 May 2022 → 27 Jun 2022 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    3 May 2022, 08:36 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    27 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

The City of Edinburgh Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services Waverley Court, 4 East Market Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 8BGContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.