Notice Information
Notice Title
Alperton Community School Catering
Notice Description
Alperton Community School is an Ofsted rated Good mixed Secondary School in Alperton, London. It has over 1,900 students between the ages of 11 and 18 on roll and 120 teaching and support staff across two campuses some five minutes apart. The lower school has a very busy and well equipped kitchen and restaurant with 2 satellite serving units. The lower school has a compact kitchen that would benefit from investment in heavy equipment. The incumbent caterer is IFG and the catering team are well-regarded by the school. The contract is nearing the end of tenure and the school is bringing the two main soft services contracts, catering and cleaning, into an August commencement date in 2024.The school has a resolute focus on high expectations for their students, their community and their staff. Mr Gerard McKenna, the Headteacher, and Mr Suresh Jatla the Director of Finance and Resources are very close to the catering operation on both sites. They are tendering their catering services to
Lot Information
Lot 1
Alperton Community School is an Ofsted rated Good mixed Secondary School in Alperton, London. It has over 1,900 students between the ages of 11 and 18 on roll and 120 teaching and support staff across two campuses some five minutes apart. The lower school has a very busy and well equipped kitchen and restaurant with 2 satellite serving units. The lower school has a compact kitchen that would benefit from investment in heavy equipment. The incumbent caterer is IFG and the catering team are well-regarded by the school. The contract is nearing the end of tenure and the school is bringing the two main soft services contracts, catering and cleaning, into an August commencement date in 2024.The school has a resolute focus on high expectations for their students, their community and their staff. Mr Gerard McKenna, the Headteacher, and Mr Suresh Jatla the Director of Finance and Resources are very close to the catering operation on both sites. They are tendering their catering services to deliver the very best service for every student at the school. The contract start date is the 1st of August 2024 and this will be for an initial three-year period. There is an option for both parties to extend the contract for a further two years subject to client satisfaction and client agreement on budgets and service levels. The catering team have a mix of NEST and LGPS Pensions. This contract will reward maximising sales and FSM uptake through pro-active management and consistently high levels of food quality and tangible contract support. The School and CCL expect the successful Contractor to guarantee their financial proposal within reason and deliver excellent standards. The school have requested that in this tender exercise the bidders focus on:A TUPE Compliant Bid with additional recommendations on service equipment, serving points, staffing levels and a bespoke food concept to drive sales and uptakeIn short, the School needs to be convinced the bidders are able to deliver their promises, achieve their sales targets, deliver their service enhancements in full and support the School. Should the School not be convinced of this they reserve the right to revert to an 'insourced' solution or post no award. Any investment proposals will need to be consistent with ESFA guidelines.
Renewal: The contract is for an initial three year term. There is an option to extend the contract for a further two years subject to mutual agreement, based on strong financial and qualitative performance by mutual agreement.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0429b6
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/069181-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Restricted procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
55 - Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services
-
- CPV Codes
55524000 - School catering services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £1,500,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £1,500,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £1,600,000 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 28 Oct 20253 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 25 Jan 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 28 Oct 20253 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- ALPERTON COMMUNITY SCHOOL CATERING
- Contact Name
- Glenn Campbell
- Contact Email
- info@cohesionconsulting.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- MIDDLESEX
- Postcode
- HA0 4JE
- Post Town
- Harrow
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI7 Outer London - West and North West
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI72 Brent
- Delivery Location
- TLI72 Brent
-
- Local Authority
- Brent
- Electoral Ward
- Alperton
- Westminster Constituency
- Brent West
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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