Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Generations Multi Academy Trust
Goffs Academy, Goffs Lane, Cheshunt
Hertfordshire
EN7 5QW
tenders@litmuspartnership.co.uk
Telephone
+44 1276673880
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKH23 - Hertfordshire
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.1) Name and addresses
Flamstead End School
Longfield Lane, Cheshunt
Hertfordshire
EN7 6AG
tenders@litmuspartnership.co.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKH23 - Hertfordshire
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.1) Name and addresses
Goffs-Churchgate Academy
College Road, Cheshunt
Hertfordshire
EN8 9LY
tenders@litmuspartnership.co.uk
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKH23 - Hertfordshire
Internet address(es)
Main 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
https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/47X3347A48
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
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
Generations Multi Academy Trust ~ Catering Tender
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 55524000 - School catering services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
The successful Supplier will be required to provide Catering Services for the three schools of Generations MAT.
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £820,000
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKH23 - Hertfordshire
Main site or place of performance
Hertfordshire
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
The successful Supplier will be required to provide Catering Services for the three schools of Generations MAT
Current turnover for the three schools is in excess of £820k.
The Trust was established following a direct approach by the DfE and currently consists of two secondaries – Goffs and Goffs-Churchgate Academy – and one primary – Flamstead End School. In addition, the Trust operates an independently run nursery from its Goffs-Churchgate site. The trust’s core aims are as follows:
‘The name “Generations” reflects our desire to be a Trust that educates and nurtures children from their earliest days at school. Partnership is at the heart of all of our work, founded in a core commitment to there being no set destiny for any child, regardless of their starting point.
Fundamentally, we are committed to having a Trust that ensures:
•No set destiny for any of our children
•Quality first delivery day in and day out
•The highest standards of achievement for each child
•Robust and effective leadership and governance
•The highest standards of financial/business delivery, ensuring that the Trust’s business operation underpins the delivery and work of all of our academies
•Personalised, high quality professional development for staff, ensuring a highly skilled workforce’
There is a mixed demographic in the catchment for each of the three schools and pupil feeding is seen as a very important part of the school day providing healthy choices for sustenance and sociability. Currently Goffs and Goffs Churchgate have Chartwells as the service provider and Flamstead End have HCL. A principal aim of this process will be to realise the benefits of a single service provider for the three schools (and any additional schools that may join the Trust in time.)
Flamstead End school, with a NOR of circa 500, and 75 nursery pupils has reasonable uptake of UIFSM and requires a certain amount of menu flexibility to accommodate the younger KS1 pupils who have a separate service area (food produced from one kitchen and transported in hotboxes around 40 metres to the secondary servery). The kitchen facility has modern service equipment and a settled team. Local stakeholders would like more menu differentiation between KS1 meals and KS2 meals in terms of small changes in menu content – additional salad bar content and more potato than pasta content, but the service provision is seen to be at even keel.
Goff’s Academy, with NOR of circa 1550 and 180 staff is in a new building, opened in 2017. In terms of production facilities, these are adequate for the site population but there are restrictions front of house in terms of servery design and available seating that will require some creative input, thought and investment throughout the ITT process. There is one existing pod to help manage queues but there may well be need for an additional service point to keep throughout of pupils commensurate with available time. On the wish-list of senior stakeholders for the next contract term are:
•Wider choice of healthier alternatives at Morning break and lunchtime
•A closer eye on sustainability – less disposables and packaging
•Relevant logistical inputs to help school return to Single all school break timetable which was in place pre- Covid
•Helping the school link Food service and service provider expertise into the curriculum – from a nutritional perspective and also to promote F&B as a genuine career pathway
Goff’s Academy Churchgate, with NOR of around 600 has a higher proportion of SEN students and with FSM % at around 35%, recognises its responsibility of feeding the pupils well.
Please see SQ document for more information.
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: £820,000
two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Start date
1 January 2024
End date
31 December 2028
This contract is subject to renewal
No
two.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
Envisaged minimum number: 5
Maximum number: 10
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates:
A minimum of 5 suppliers and a maximum of 10 suppliers will be taken forward to the tender stage of the process. Where less than 5 suppliers meet the minimum standards, only those that meet the minimum standards will be taken through to the tender stage. Where more than 5 suppliers meet the minimum standard, those suppliers with the highest scores will proceed to the tender stage.
two.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: Yes
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: No
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
Restricted procedure
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
4 August 2023
Local time
12:00pm
four.2.3) Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
21 August 2023
four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
English
Section six. Complementary information
six.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: No
six.3) Additional information
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
It will be the supplier's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents in order to submit a response by the closing date and time.
The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this contract notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time.
The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity.
The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid.
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GO Reference: GO-2023630-PRO-23313468
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
Generations Multi Academy Trust
Hertfordshire
Country
United Kingdom
six.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
Flamstead End School
Longfield Lane, Cheshunt
Hertfordshire
EN7 6AG
Country
United Kingdom
six.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Goffs-Churchgate Academy
College Road, Cheshunt
Hertfordshire
EN8 9LY
Country
United Kingdom