# St Michael's CofE High School — Tender for Catering Services\.

> A sourced UK public-sector contract award published by The Litmus Partnership Ltd.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: The Litmus Partnership Ltd
- Contract winner: [Mellors Catering Services Limited](/contract-winners/mellors-catering-services/public-sector-contract-awards)
- Award value: £970,000
- Tender value: £795,000
- Award date: 20 January 2017
- Published: 29 March 2017
- Contract start: 1 April 2017
- Contract end: 31 March 2022
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 6c9343c6-3420-4a3f-aed7-3e4c9a3cb8e6-138494
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-1271560e-adca-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

## Description

St Michael's is a Church of England Academy High School located in Chorley\. There are 1 125 pupils, years 7-11, with a separate year 11 common room/dining area\. The successful tenderer will be required to provide catering services at St Michael's CofE High School\. Breakfast, morning break and lunch are currently provided in the main dining areas with daily tea, coffee and fruit juice provided to the staff room at break and a small amount of hospitality\. The use of local producers and suppliers is important to the school as is the promotion of healthy eating and a good variety of meal options\. The school welcomes expressions of interest from caterers able to demonstrate good resource in this Geographical area and the ability to support the on-site team\. The contract will commence on 1\.4\.2017 for a minimum period of 3 years and the option to extend for a further 2 years\. Additional information: Interest in the pre-qualification 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 pre-qualification questionnaire and associated documents can be obtained at: http://www\.litmuspartnership\.co\.uk/project/st\_michaels\_cofe\_high\_school The closing date for receipt of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is 23\.9\.2016 \(12:00\)\. Tenderers 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 \(where indicated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire\) 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 Tenderer'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 OJEU 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\.

## Related contract awards

- [Caterham High School ~ Tender for Catering Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-e7fe929f-4d2a-4af7-bc13-53de2e49e00f): The Litmus Partnership Ltd
- [Little Heath School - Tender for Cleaning Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ee37b891-ec23-4023-a021-842240a73995): The Litmus Partnership Ltd
- [Bishop Vesey's Grammar School - Tender for Grounds Maintenance Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a3262d85-3f54-4a7a-9081-3d1826d07f71): The Litmus Partnership Ltd
- [The Bemrose School - Catering Tender For Secondary & Primary Schools](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b86f652c-a30c-476d-a467-956481fbf023): The Bemrose School
- [Star Academies ~ Catering Tender](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-16503ea6-c88c-4b2d-90c9-975f559d864d): Star Academies
- [City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College ~ Catering Services Tender](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d2320bcb-2e72-4960-a652-1f48105c5536): City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/6c9343c6-3420-4a3f-aed7-3e4c9a3cb8e6-138494)