Notice Information
Notice Title
Welsh Government Catering Services Contract
Notice Description
This tender opportunity is for the Welsh Government catering service requirements in order to award a single contract to a main supplier for the provision of these services. The Catering Services Contract will cover the provision of on-site catering and hospitality services at 4 office locations in Wales and hospitality catering solutions for the Client's offices without on-site catering facilities - including 1 office located in London.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Below is an over-view of the Client's requirements which are detailed and confirmed in the tender documents. The Client requires the Catering Services Contract to deliver positive economic and social benefits to Wales and services must be delivered with assured statutory compliance - particularly in respect of Food Safety legislation, Health and Safety Law and all other applicable legislation. The service must reflect exemplary standards of catering industry best practice and must be operated with a management ethos of continuous improvement throughout the contract term whilst delivering best value for the Client and service users. The contract must maximise resource efficiency (water; heat; power; waste management etc.) and sustainable practices - including support for locally procured food and local food producers; health and wellbeing and Fairtrade. There are currently 4 office locations in scope for on-site catering services - Cardiff; Merthyr Tydfil; Aberystwyth and Llandudno Junction. The Client requires a cafe-style service offering a range of hot and cold 'grab and go' food and hot and cold beverages and hospitality catering services. There is also a limited / ad-hoc requirement for events and fine dining services mainly at the Client's Cardiff location. Whilst there remains some uncertainty about post-pandemic building occupancy numbers, for illustrative purposes the Client anticipates attendance at the 4 catered offices to be circa 50% of pre-pandemic numbers. On this basis, occupancy would be as follows - Cathays Park (1,640 staff); Merthyr Tydfil (297 staff); Aberystwyth (210 staff); Llandudno Junction (338 staff). The Client also currently has 9 office locations without on-site catering facilities that will require a limited / ad-hoc hospitality food and beverage service. These offices are located in Caerphilly; Newport; Swansea; Carmarthen; Newtown; Llandrindod Wells; Wrexham; Caernarfon and London. Services provided through the contract must be fully compliant with the Welsh Government's Welsh Language Scheme. In particular, the contractor will be required to ensure that in all dealings with the public, Welsh and English languages must be treated on the basis of equality - including ensuring that all menu and promotional material, customer surveys and any other information or hospitality booking system content, whether provided in hard copy or through any electronic medium, are fully bilingual. Security vetting clearance will be required for all contractor personnel engaged in the delivery of the contracted services. The contract will also include the provision of maintenance services for Client owned coffee machines (semi-automatic bean to cup and barista machines). Additional information: The estimated contract value of GBP 4000000 is for the initial contract term and the optional extension period.
Options: As stated in the tender documents.
Renewal: 3 years initial contract term plus an up to 3 years extension option
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-047c6f
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/049804-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
39 - Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products
50 - Repair and maintenance services
55 - Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services
-
- CPV Codes
39220000 - Kitchen equipment, household and domestic items and catering supplies
39310000 - Catering equipment
39311000 - Light catering equipment
50883000 - Repair and maintenance services of catering equipment
55500000 - Canteen and catering services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £4,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £4,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £4,000,000 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 19 Aug 20256 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 4 Sep 2024Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 15 Jul 2024Expired
- Award Date
- 24 Jun 20258 months ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- 3 years initial contract term + up to 3 years extension option
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- WELSH GOVERNMENT
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- cpsprocurementadvice@gov.wales
- Contact Phone
- +44 3000257095
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CARDIFF
- Postcode
- CF10 3NQ
- Post Town
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLL Wales
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLL5 South East Wales
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLL52 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
- Delivery Location
- TLL Wales
-
- Local Authority
- Cardiff
- Electoral Ward
- Cathays
- Westminster Constituency
- Cardiff South and Penarth
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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