Notice Information
Notice Title
Bridge Schools Trust ~ Cleaning Tender
Notice Description
The successful Supplier will be required to provide a comprehensive cleaning service, including daily term time and non-term time periodic cleaning, for 15 Primary Schools within the Bridge Schools Trust.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The successful Supplier will be required to provide a comprehensive cleaning service, including daily term time and non-term time periodic cleaning, for 15 Primary Schools within the Bridge Schools Trust: Blisland Primary AcademyWaterloo, Blisland, Bodmin, PL30 4JX Brunel Primary & Nursery AcademyCallington Road, Saltash, PL12 6DX Copper Valley Infant & Nursery AcademyDrakewalls, Gunnislake, PL18 9EN Copper Valley Junior AcademyChapel Street, Gunnislake, PL18 9NA Darite Primary AcademyDarite, Liskeard, PL14 5JH Duloe C of E Primary AcademyThe Green, Duloe, Liskeard, PL14 4PW Harrowbarrow Primary AcademySchool Road, Harrowbarrow, Callington, PL17 8BQ Lanlivery Primary AcademyLanlivery, Bodmin, PL30 5BT Looe Primary AcademyHay Lane, East Looe, Looe, PL13 1JY Pelynt Primary AcademyPelynt, PL13 2LG Polperro Primary AcademyBrentfields, Looe, PL13 2JJ Polruan Primary AcademySt Saviour's Hill, Polruan, PL23 1PS St Cleer Primary AcademyWell Lane, St Cleer, Liskeard, PL14 5EA Trenode C of E Primary AcademyWidegates, Looe, PL13 1QA Wadebridge Primary AacdemyGonvena Hill, Wadebridge, PL27 6BL The Trust is seeking a suitably experienced contractor who has current experience of working within the education sector, preferably within Primary School establishments, to demonstrate the knowledge and understanding of contracts of a similar scope. Ideally the successful contractor will have a strong operational base with the South West region, or be looking to actively expand into this region, thus allowing for both adequate contract support and operational flexibility that is to be delivered to support the contract as and when needed moving forwards into this contract term. The scope of the contract covers all of the cleaning provision within each of the Schools. This includes term time daily cleaning, plus a number of weeks for holiday and periodic cleaning during non-term time to provide a deeper clean of the Schools and their buildings to ensure they are suitably prepared for the beginning of each academic term. The requirement of the Trust is that the successful contractor provides a clean and functioning premises, as per the specification, that is fit for purpose at all times through delivering the guaranteed level of input hours. As part of that requirement, the successful contractor is to be proactive in the management of the contract, with regular site visits to each School, with open lines of communication. That communication must include frequent and proactively provided management information, as well as operating an open book policy. A robust level of management support must be provided by the successful contractor to ensure that the detailed specification is delivered within the contract on a consistent basis within the contract period. Please see SQ Document for more information.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04ded4
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/004997-2025
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
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
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
90 - Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services
-
- CPV Codes
90919300 - School cleaning services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £8,705,085 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £8,705,085 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 13 Feb 20251 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 21 Mar 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 31 Aug 2025 - 31 Aug 2030 Over 5 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- BRIDGE SCHOOLS TRUST
- Additional Buyers
BRUNEL PRIMARY & NURSERY ACADEMY
COPPER VALLEY INFANT & NURSERY ACADEMY
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- tenders@litmuspartnership.co.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1276673880
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CORNWALL
- Postcode
- PL31 2RQ
- Post Town
- Plymouth
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLK South West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLK3 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLK30 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
- Delivery Location
- TLK3 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
-
- Local Authority
- Cornwall
- Electoral Ward
- Wadebridge East & St Minver
- Westminster Constituency
- North Cornwall
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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