Supply and Distribution of Catering Disposables

Telephone

+44 1706215726

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKD4 - Lancashire

Internet address(es)

Main address

Buyer's address

one.1) Name and addresses

Education

Broadway

Haslingden

BB4 4EY

Email

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UK - United Kingdom

Internet address(es)

Main address

Buyer's address

darron.bibby@dukefieldfood.com

one.1) Name and addresses

Dukefield FoodService

New Road

Bolton

BL1 4RA

Email

Telephone

+44 7545051912

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKD3 - Greater Manchester

Internet address(es)

Main address

Buyer's address

one.1) Name and addresses

Public Sector

Broadway

Haslingden

BB4 4EY

Email

Telephone

+44 7545051912

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UK - United Kingdom

Internet address(es)

Main address

Buyer's address

one.2) Information about joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

one.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at

Additional information can be obtained from another address:

Haslingden High School

Broadway

Haslingden

BB4 4EY

Email

Telephone

+44 1706215726

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKD4 - Lancashire

Internet address(es)

Main address

Buyer's address

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via

http://www.dukefieldfoodservice.com/fts-eligible-users.

Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

one.5) Main activity

Education

Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Supply and Distribution of Catering Disposables

Reference number

CA15372 - HHS/DF/CD-2025

two.1.2) Main CPV code

39222100 - Disposable catering supplies

two.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

two.1.4) Short description

This Framework is designed to meet the Catering Disposable needs of Haslingden High School it is also open for use by all contracting authorities across the UK public sector (and any future successors to these organisations). These include (but not limited to) central government departments and agencies, Non Departmental Public Bodies, NHS bodies, Local Authorities, Police Authorities, Emergency Services, Educational Establishments, Hospices, Registered Charities, National Parks and Registered Social Landlords. Full details of the classification of eligible end user establishments and geographical areas is available at

The framework will be supplied nationally with a maximum of 3 suppliers awarded.

two.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: £8,000,000

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes

UKD3 - Greater Manchester

Main site or place of performance

Greater Manchester

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

This framework is designed to meet the Disposable Catering needs across the entire public sector. The framework covers a comprehensive range and full details of the service provision are contained within the invitation to Tender documentation.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

two.2.6) Estimated value

Value excluding VAT: £8,000,000

two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Duration in months

This contract is subject to renewal

two.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: No

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: Yes

Description of options

48 month(s) from the commencement date, with 24 initial month(s) and option to extend 2x12 month(s)

two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No

Section three. Legal, economic, financial and technical information

three.1) Conditions for participation

three.1.2) Economic and financial standing

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

three.1.3) Technical and professional ability

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents

Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

four.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system

The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement

Framework agreement with several operators

Envisaged maximum number of participants to the framework agreement: 3

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date

24 March 2025

Local time

12:00pm

four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

English

four.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders

Date

24 March 2025

Local time

12:00pm

Section six. Complementary information

six.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: No

six.3) Additional information

The framework is being delivered through Haslingden High School and its partners Dukefield

Foodservice Ltd (who are a subsidiary of Dukefield Group Ltd). Dukefield Foodservice Ltd

are acting as agents of Haslingden High School in the development and ongoing contract

management of this framework. The contracting authority will be using an eTendering

system to conduct the procurement exercise. To access the procurement

documentation suppliers must register their company details on the Sourcing Cloud system

at:

the tender is available from the opportunities menu on the login page of the site.

The contracting authority shall not be under any obligation to accept the lowest tender or

indeed any tender. Haslingden High School expressly reserves the rights:

(a) to terminate the procurement process and not to award any contract as a result of the

procurement process at any time;

(b) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the procurement

as detailed within the tender documentation;

explicitly detailed within the tender documentation;

(d) to disqualify any organisation from the process that canvasses any employee of the

Contracting Authority during the procurement process or standstill period if applicable;

(e) seek clarifications to tender responses on the basis that any clarification sought will not

confer any undue competitive advantage in the favour of any supplier from whom such

clarifications are being sought;

(f) where the contracting authority can evidence that there is a conflict of interest, either

personal or in consideration of any organisation bidding for the contract, the contracting

authority shall have the explicit right to immediately exclude that person or organisation

from the tender process entirely;

(g) where the contracting authority has engaged in any pre-market soft testing prior to the

commencement of the procurement process, the contracting authority reserves the right to

name any organisation that has been involved in these discussions and release any and all

specifications/discussion documents to the market where appropriate to the subject matter

of this procurement;

(h) the contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by tenderers;

(i) the value of the framework provided in section II.1.5) is only an estimate and the

contracting authority will not guarantee any business through this framework agreement;

and

(j) the contracting authority wishes to establish a framework agreement open for use by all

Public Sector Bodies as stated in II.1.4).

Tenderers should note, in reference to section IV.1.3), envisaged maximum number of

participants to the framework:

Where, following the evaluation of bids, more than one tenderer on a Lot is tied with the

same evaluation score and are ranked in the last supplier award position, each of these

tenderers shall be deemed to occupy the last framework agreement contract award position

for the Lot in question for the purpose of calculating the maximum number of suppliers under

the framework.

The contracting authority will award a framework agreement to additional tenderers on a

particular Lot beyond the stated maximum number for that lot, where their final evaluation

score (s) is within 0.5% of the last placed position only on the particular lot. For the

avoidance of doubt, the last placed position in respect of this framework on each lot is third

place.

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Haslingden High School

Broadway

Haslingden

BB4 4EY

Email

Telephone

+44 1706215726

Fax

+44 1706219861

Country

United Kingdom

Internet address

six.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures

Haslingden High School

Broadway

Haslingden

BB4 4EY

Email

Telephone

+44 1706215726

Fax

+44 1706219861

Country

United Kingdom

Internet address

six.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedure

Haslingden High School will incorporate a minimum 10-day standstill period at the point

information on the award of contract is communicated to tenderers. Bidders who are

unsuccessful shall be informed by the Contracting Authority as soon as possible after the

decision is made as to the reasons why the bidder was unsuccessful. If an appeal regarding

the award of the contract has not been successfully resolved, the Public Procurement

Regulations provide for the aggrieved parties who have been harmed or who are at risk of

harm by the breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and

Northern Ireland). Any action must be generally brought within 3 months. If a declaration of

ineffectiveness is sought, any such action must be brought within 30 days where the

Contracting Authority has communicated the award of the contract and a summary of

reasons to tenderers, or otherwise within 6 months of the contract being entered into.

Where a contract has not been entered into, the Court may order the setting aside of the

award decision or order the Contracting Authority to amend any document and may award

damages. If the Contract has been entered into the Court may, depending on the

circumstances, award damages, make a declaration of ineffectiveness, order the

Contracting Authority to pay a fine, and/or order that the duration of the contract the

shortened. The purpose of the standstill period referred to above is to allow the parties to

apply to the Courts to set aside the award decision before the contract is entered into

six.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

Haslingden High School

Broadway

Haslingden

BB4 4EY

Email