Notice Information
Notice Title
Moulton College Outsourced Catering Service
Notice Description
Moulton College has conducted a tender to appoint a company to provide a fully managed catering service to College students and staff, with occasional pre-arranged catering of events. However, the Provider is actively encouraged to maximise the commercial opportunity available to expand the service by offering catering / refreshments for evening and weekend events and to external customers. The primary objective of the contract is to ensure that a high standard of catering is maintained, providing a highly proactive, appealing, and nutritious catering service that makes a significant contribution to the health and wellbeing of the students. The Customer will enter into a contract with a Provider who: * is a suitably qualified supplier of catering services, *can deliver a fully managed, outsourced catering service to the Customer's sites, *can offer an affordable contract costing model, ultimately reducing the cost to the Customer, *will support the Customer's aims of providing high quality, healthy and nutritious meals, at an affordable price, *will work in close partnership with the Customer to offer age appropriate, hot and cold meals which exceed the Government's requirements for School Food Standards and take into account individual student dietary requirements where necessary, *will work with the Customer to market and maximise the number of student meals being bought, *will maximise the commercial opportunity offered by the Customer's catering facilities, particularly the coffee shops, by taking advantaged of additional opportunities offered by weekend and evening events (sporting events, open days etc.). The Contract is for a period of three years with three options to extend of 12 months each.
Lot Information
Lot 1
Renewal: Three extension periods of 12 months each, at the sole discretion of the College and subject to satisfactory performance.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-050f48
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/043102-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK6 - Contract Award 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
55 - Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services
-
- CPV Codes
55510000 - Canteen services
55520000 - Catering services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £3,300,000 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £3,300,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- £6,000,000 £1M-£10M
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 25 Jul 20257 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 6 Jun 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 24 Jul 20257 months ago
- Contract Period
- 30 Sep 2025 - 30 Sep 2028 3-4 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Pending
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- MOULTON COLLEGE
- Contact Name
- Jenny Swainson
- Contact Email
- fm@moulton.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- MOULTON
- Postcode
- NN3 7RR
- Post Town
- Northampton
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLF East Midlands (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLF2 Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLF24 West Northamptonshire
- Delivery Location
- TLF2 Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire
-
- Local Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Electoral Ward
- Moulton
- Westminster Constituency
- Daventry
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/043102-2025
25th July 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019900-2025
8th May 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Northamptonshire:-Canteen-and-catering-services./25277HV357
All tender documents available, and submissions to be made through the Delta eSourcing portal
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
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