Aldridge Education - Tender for Cleaning Services

The successful supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for Aldridge Education at the following locations: - Brighton Aldridge Community Academy, - Portslade Aldridge Community Academy, - Duke's Aldridge Academy, - Kensington Aldridge Academy, - Darwen Aldridge Community Academy, - Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio, - Darwen Vale High School, - Sudell Primary School, - UTC@MediaCity. Aldridge Education is a multi-academy trust (the "Trust") established to fulfil the Aldridge ambition of growth through education. The Trust is running a cleaning services tender project covering nine schools located across the North and South of England and seeking to appoint supplier(s) with experience of schools of all types and sizes and delivering innovative ideas to provide cleaning services at our existing facilities for the benefit of all our users and customers - students, teaching, support staff and community users. There are currently 8 schools within the multi-academy trust plus Aldridge Education also sponsor a single academy school, taking the number of schools to 9. We are a growing Trust and require the flexibility to increase our cleaning requirements should the number of academy schools grows. Our school year is based on a calendar of 195 days of which 5 days are to be used for staff professional development which means that our schools are open to receive students for the legal minimum of 190 days. All our schools are open to community users throughout the year during evenings, weekend and during school holidays. The successful supplier(s) will be required to provide cleaning services to meet the needs of all customer's/users of the school facilities. The value of the current cleaning provision across all nine (9) schools is approximately 1 000 000 GBP per annum. The nine (9) schools in the Trust are geographically located in the North and the South of England and the ITT will be structured in two (2) lots. It is not mandatory for suppliers to bid for both lots. Suppliers are encouraged to bid for all schools in the relevant lot. The Trust currently has a mix of school types - a primary school, a UTC, a Studio, and secondary schools with and without sixth form. The Trust expects the successful supplier(s) to provide high quality cleaning services which meet minimum standards in terms of outstanding and consistent quality across all 9 schools whilst also providing services that are tailored to meet the needs of a typical school in the relevant specific school type. The Trust will look for evidence of this in the supplier's tender response. The Trust currently has a mix of insourced and outsourced provision with 4 incumbent providers, further details in the table below. The Trust expects the successful supplier to have experience of managing transitions from insource to outsource and from incumbent outsource to the new provider. Further information is provided in the SQ Document.