Notice Information
Notice Title
Hackney Families and Children's Centres Hubs Catering Service 2025
Notice Description
Children's Centres and Family Hub provide a range of family support services from a single location; working closely with schools, GPs and other local service providers. Their services generally also include childcare for 0-5 year olds. Most children's centres which provide childcare will be open from 7:45am in the morning until 5:45pm in the evening, Monday to Friday, a minimum of 48 weeks a year.
Planning Information
This is a PIN (A Prior Indicative Notice) Pre- Market Engagement for the following. London Borough of Hackney is in the process of developing a tender for catering service (Lunches & Snacks) for children under 5 (Early Years) at Hackney’s Families and Children Centre Hubs. The Service Provider must offer Early Years catering services which are in line with the School Food Trust Recommendations for Food & Drink for Under 5s and the Government Buying Standards for Food and Catering. A prerequisite for this tender It is essential that you have Early Years Catering experience The purpose of the pre-market engagement is to gain an understanding of Catering Service Providers who are experienced in Early Years Catering and would like to bid/Express an Interest when the tender is published. We are seeking a contract that can provide high quality meals that meet the Early Years nutritional guidelines for Children under 5 to be delivered in Hackney children centres and family hubs and school maintained children centres. As well as a contractor that will work with the Council to further Hackney’s Sustainability agenda to reduce food waste and carbon emissions. This will be through achieving a number of targets including Creating climate friendly meals Carrying out a food waste baseline audit on an annual basis to reduce food waste by 50% by 2030 from 2025 baseline data. Sending annual food purchase data to the Climate team and reduce food related emissions by 38% by 2030 from 2024 baseline data It is likely that the contractor will need to have admitted body status for LGPS Please note at this stage, any information gathered through the pre-market engagement may inform internal business planning and any possible subsequent procurement process and will NOT be appraised in any future tender evaluation exercise. Please also note that participation or non-participation in this preliminary market consultation exercise shall not prevent any provider participating in any potential procurement process, nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any provider at an advantage or disadvantage in any forthcoming procurement process. The framework will run for 3 years and include an option to extend for a further year and will commence in October 2025. Please register your interest on the London Tender Portal to be notified when the tender is published towards the early or Mid May https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=ab783395-011a-f011-8136-005056b64545&p=2241eb95-058a-e511-80f7-000c29c9ba21 This is not a call for competition.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0503e7
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015511-2025
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
55 - Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services
-
- CPV Codes
55520000 - Catering services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £3,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 16 Apr 202510 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 30 Apr 2025Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 1 Oct 2025 - 30 Sep 2028 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planning
- Lots Status
- Planning
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY
- Contact Name
- LBH Rehilah Hamid
- Contact Email
- rehilah.hamid@hackney.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2083563000
Buyer Location
- Locality
- HACKNEY
- Postcode
- E8 1DY
- Post Town
- East London
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLI London
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLI4 Inner London - East
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLI41 Hackney and Newham
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Hackney
- Electoral Ward
- Hackney Central
- Westminster Constituency
- Hackney South and Shoreditch
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/015511-2025
16th April 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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