Prince William School - Catering Services

The successful tenderer will be required to provide catering services at Prince William School. The duration of the contract being offered is 3 years commencing on 1.8.2016 and concluding on 31.7.2021. The contract covers the scope for the provision of all catering and vending services within the School, whichalso includes all hospitality and free issue requirements. The contract being offered within this tender will be based on a guaranteed performance basis with all fee issuerequirements and hospitality being recharged on consumption at 'net' food cost only. Prince William is a large Secondary School within Oundle and in September 2015 will enrol a further 2 yeargroups, at the same time the restaurant has undergone an extensive refurbishment. It is expected that the contract will continue to run on a profit return with no subsidy ~ there is no subsidyassociated with the contract. The School are looking for the successful tenderer to provide inward capital investment to refresh andrejuvenate the catering facilities thus improving on the current provision and ensure that the amount of timespent queuing by pupils is reduced within all break periods. It is also hoped that an exterior food service pointcan be established along with a bespoke food offer within the sixth form centre. The quality of food provision will be critical and indeed your organisation must be flexible enough to sourcebakery, meat, fruit and vegetables and dairy products through local suppliers based no more than 20 miles fromthe school. It is expected that menus will feature and utilise products in season when available. Customer engagement will be fundamental to the continuous improvement in the service provision and withinyour tender response your methodology to this will need to be detailed along with examples of where this hasbeen undertaken within similar contracts recently. The successful contractor should have similar operations within the local area thus ensuring that the OperationalManagement Team responsible for the contract is available for regular unplanned visits and support for thecontract, and that coverage for any planned or unplanned leave from within the establishment staffing structurecan be easily provided.