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Waltham Secondary School Cluster Catering Tender

Buyer: Frederick Bremer School (RM&C) →

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BuyerFrederick Bremer School (RM&C)
StatusClosed
Deadline24 Oct 2025
Value£3
Published12 Sept 2025

What is being bought

This cluster of three secondary schools are putting their catering contracts out to tender with contract start dates in April 2026. The schools are Frederick Bremer School, Heathcote School & Science College and Holy Family Catholic School & Sixth Form.

Delivery location

UKI53, GB · UKI53, GB · UKI53, GB

Categories

School catering services 55524000

Lot details

Frederick Bremer School

A community school for 900 pupils in Walthamstow.

Statusactive
Value£1
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Scoring Example — The Selection Questionnaire response will be scored using the scoring example attached.

Heathcote School & Science College

This secondary school is based in Chingford and has a roll of 1,000 + students.

Statusactive
Value£1
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Scoring Example — The Selection Question response will be scored using the scoring example attached.

Holy Family Catholic School & Sixth Form

This school is based in Walthamstow and has a roll of 1,000 + students.

Statusactive
Value£1
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Scoring Example — The Selection Question response will be scored using the scoring example attached.

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1School catering servicesNot published
2School catering servicesNot published
3School catering servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 55. The category anchor is School catering services (55524000); 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 558564 median · 12.2 average (227 of 856 with a bid count)1.9 average (234 of 856 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKI533Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)3Not publishedNot publishedNot 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 byNot published
Submission policyallowed
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.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-059921
Latest release ID056064-2025
Latest release timestampFri Sep 12 2025 09:19:31 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/056064-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadline2025-10-24T13:00:00+01:00
Enquiry deadline2025-10-24T13:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-01-26T23:59:59+00:00
Submission method detailsFollow instructions in the Part 1 Document. You can submit your completed SQ Part 2 response via the mytenders portal https://www.mytenders.co.uk. Or to be emailed to the school and RM&C Consultants Ltd as detailed in the Part 1 Document. Please do not embed your documents into the Part 2 document, provide your additional documents / policies as attachments.
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£3
Tender lots in source3
Tender items in source3
Tender documents in source5
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
12 Sept 2025tender056064-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
12 Sept 2025 · 056064-2025 · tender
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