Supply And Delivery of Pre Prepared Meals to the Education Authority

the Education AuthoritycontractFind a TenderRef ocds-h6vhtk-05849cProcurement Act 2023SME suitableVCSE suitablepending
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Estimated value

Awarded value

£335k

Awarded 27 Oct 2025

Suppliers

1

Lots

1

1 awarded

Published

27 Oct 2025

Description

Supply and delivery of Pre-Prepared Meals (Individual and Bulk) to school meals kitchens within Northern Ireland for a period of 5 years with the option to extend for a further two 12 month extension periods. This Contract is established by the Education Authority and is open to the EA, including NI educational bodies as follows, who at some point, during the life of the Contract may wish to utilise the agreement and should have access at any point, with the permission of EA. This Contract is not intended to replace any current agreements that participating or nonparticipating institutions may already have in place. Department of Education - Schools Plus https://www.educationni.gov.uk/services/schoolsplus Primary and Post Primary schools under the control of the EA, Catholic Maintained Schools Independent Schools in NI, Irish Medium Schools in NI, both Controlled and Voluntary Grammar Schools, Nursery School for NI (both controlled, and Catholic Maintained), schoolmeals kitchens on-site at all of these schools, and Controlled Youth Centres. Further Education Colleges in NI : https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/further-educationfecolleges NICIE - https://nicie.org/ Grant Controlled Integrated Education Schools in NI Independent Schools in NI https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/northern-ireland/ EA Teachers' and Educational Centres Council for the Curriculum, Examination and Assessment NI (CCEA) Armagh Observatory and Planetarium Middletown Centre for Autism Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC) Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE) Pre-Schools and Nurseries included within the EA Pre-School Education Programme (PSEP) Preliminary market engagement notice ocds-h6vhtk-04e889 was Published 28 February 2025, 10:25am

Scope

Reference
CAT-25-012
Commercial tool
Standalone contract
Contract dates
01 Dec 2025 to 30 Nov 2030
Possible extension to 30 Nov 2032

Two 12 month optional extensions

CPV classifications
15894200
15894210
15894300
Contract locations
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Particular suitability
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)

Award criteria

Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.

NameDescriptionTypeWeighting
Proposed MethodologyFull details can be found in the CfTdocuments section on eTenderNI https://etendersni.gov.uk/eppsquality20.00%
Quality of Samples - Product CharacteristicsFull details can be found in the CfTdocuments section on eTenderNI https://etendersni.gov.uk/eppsquality60.00%
PriceFull details can be found in the CfTdocuments section on eTenderNI https://etendersni.gov.uk/eppsprice20.00%

Participation

Conditions suppliers must meet to bid.

CoP 1 Technical ability to perform the contract – Previous Experience

Submission & procedure

Procedure
Open procedure

Award details

Awarded supplier(s), contract period and value as published in the award notice.

Awarded value

£335k

Award date

27 Oct 2025

Contract start

01 Dec 2025

Contract end

30 Nov 2030

Awarded to