Harris Federation - Tender for Catering Services

Harris Federation is consistently one of the top performing multi-academy trusts.

Each year as we have grown, the expectations we have set ourselves have increased. 68 % of all of our academies inspected so far have been graded as outstanding (compared to 20 % nationally) with the rest judged as good. 84 % of our secondary academies have been judged as outstanding so far.

The federation is continually growing and taking on more schools. There are 3 additional schools that will be opening from September 2018. Harris Academy Wimbledon, Harris Academy Sutton and Harris Professional Skills 6th Form.

The successful supplier will be required to provide catering services for the Harris Federation at the schools as detailed below.

The procurement process will result in the schools' catering provision being awarded as one single contract.

The contract, which will be nil cost guaranteed as a minimum and will be based on a Litmus contract, will commence on 1 September 2018 and will be awarded on a 3 + 2 years basis.

The cash and free school meal sales listed by each school are from academic year 2016/17. The current catering contract is operated on an overall nil cost basis.

Further information is provided in the SQ document.

Additional information: Interest in the selection process should be expressed via email only to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk clearly stating within this email which contract / notice you are referring to. Please also provide, as a minimum, a contact name, full company postal address and telephone number.

The Selection Questionnaire and associated documents can be obtained at: http://www.litmuspartnership.co.uk/project/harris_federation

The closing date for receipt of the Selection Questionnaire is 26.1.2018 (12:00). Suppliers are required to ensure that documents are obtained and returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk by the above closing date and time.

Documents in respect of economic / financial standing (where indicated in the Selection Questionnaire) shall be returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk by the above closing date and time.

It will be the Supplier's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents in order to submit a response by the closing date and time.

The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this Contract Notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time.

The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity.

The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid.