Moulton College Outsourced Catering Service

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Estimated value

£3.3m

services

Awarded value

Suppliers

0

Lots

1

0 awarded

Published

08 May 2025

Deadline 06 Jun 2025

Description

Moulton College wishes 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 is seeking to 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 will be for a period of three years with three options to extend of 12 months each. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Northamptonshire:-Canteen-and-catering-services./25277HV357 To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/25277HV357

Scope

Reference
MC-CATERING-25
Total value
£3,300,000 excluding VAT
£3,960,000 including VAT
Above the relevant threshold
Commercial tool
Standalone contract
Contract dates
31 Aug 2025 to 31 Aug 2028
Possible extension to 31 Aug 2031

Three extension periods of 12 months each, at the sole discretion of the College and subject to satisfactory performance.

Main category
services
CPV classifications
55510000
55520000
Contract locations
East Midlands, United Kingdom

Award criteria

Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.

NameDescriptionTypeWeighting
qualityquality60.00%
costcost40.00%

Participation

Conditions suppliers must meet to bid.

Please refer to the tender documents

Submission & procedure

Enquiry deadline
30 May 2025, 10:00 pm
Submission deadline
06 Jun 2025, 11:00 am
Submission address
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/25277HV357 All submission to be made to the above address
Electronic submission
Yes
Procedure
Open procedure