School Catering Contract Blackpool
The successful tenderer will be required to provide catering services at Thames Primary Academy.
United Kingdom-Blackpool: School catering services
2015/S 059-104113
Contract notice
Services
Directive 2004/18/EC
Section I: Contracting authority
I.1)Name, addresses and contact point(s)
Thames Primary Academy
Severn Road
For the attention of: The Litmus Partnership Ltd
FY4 1EE Blackpool
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone: +44 1276673880
E-mail: pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: http://www.thames.blackpool.sch.uk
Further information can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from: The above mentioned contact point(s)
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: The above mentioned contact point(s)
I.2)Type of the contracting authority
I.3)Main activity
I.4)Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities
Section II: Object of the contract
II.1.1)Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:
II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance
Service category No 17: Hotel and restaurant services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Thames Primary Academy, Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom.
NUTS code UKD42
II.1.3)Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)
II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s)
Thames Primary has served Blackpool’s South Shore community for over 100 years. Several generations of the same families have been taught at this school and there are currently 439 children on roll with over 50 % entitled to a free school meal.
Thames Children’s Centre and Nursery opened in 2005 providing a range of life enhancing services and support for many families. The Nursery provides day care services for children from the age of 3 months. There are 60 children in Nursery.
In tendering its catering services the Academy wishes to ensure that the services are as cost effective as possible, whilst serving good quality meals to children for whom this may be the only proper meal of the day.
The tender is for the provision of a catering service for the main school and also for the Children’s Centre where there is a separate café open to the public.
Expressions of interest are invited for caterers who can demonstrate experience of catering for the primary school sector.
The contract will be for an initial period of 3 years from 1.9.2015 with the option to extend for a further 2 years.
II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)
55524000
II.1.7)Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
II.1.8)Lots
II.1.9)Information about variants
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
Minimum standards for participation are stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
Failure to achieve a pass in any of the minimum standards will result in your exclusion from any further part in this process.
Grounds for mandatory rejection (ineligibility) — questions are stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
Mandatory and discretionary exclusions for non-payment of taxes etc. — questions are stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
Discretionary grounds for rejection — questions are stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
III.2.2)Economic and financial ability
Minimum standards for participation are stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
Failure to achieve a pass in any of the minimum standards will result in your exclusion from any further part in this process.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required: Economic and financial standing — Tenderers are required to have a minimum annual turnover of 750 000 GBP.
Suppliers must be financially fluid and currently trading.
They must not be recorded at Companies House as having any negative action/event (dissolved, removed, in liquidation, etc.) that calls into question their financial/corporate standing. Such action/event will be deemed to be a failure to meet minimum standards of economic and financial standing. Additionally, suppliers must provide suitable evidence in the form of the last full year of accounts (audited and accompanied by auditors’ confirmation where they are above the statutory threshold for providing audited accounts, or certified by their bank if they are below the statutory audit threshold). Non provision of such evidence to a satisfactory standard will be deemed to be a failure to meet minimum standards of economic and financial standing.
If a business has been recently set up and not audited, annual or endorsed accounts have been produced, unaudited or management accounts for the 3 months prior to the application must be provided and certified by an independent Chartered Accountant or accompanied by a positive bankers reference for the bidder.
Where information is available to the contracting authority that points to concerns over financial viability, further information may be requested to evidence financial viability and non-availability of, or refusal to provide such evidence, will be deemed to be a failure to meet minimum standards of economic and financial standing.
III.2.3)Technical capacity
Tenderers will be required to complete and submit a pre-qualification questionnaire and associated documentation to The Litmus Partnership Limited website.
Minimum standards for participation are stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
Failure to achieve a pass in any of the minimum standards will result in your exclusion from any further part in this process.
Minimum level(s) of standards possibly required:
Health and Safety Policy — Tenderers shall have a robust Health and Safety Policy endorsed by the Company Director(s).
Tenderers shall have in place insurance cover of a minimum:
— Public Liability Cover — 5 000 000 GBP;
— Employers Liability Cover — 5 000 000 GBP.
Other questions as indicated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire shall be assessed and scored on a points basis.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1.1)Type of procedure
IV.1.2)Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate
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.
IV.2.1)Award criteria
IV.2.2)Information about electronic auction
IV.3.4)Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates
IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.2)Information about European Union funds
VI.3)Additional information
Interest in the pre-qualification process should be expressed via e-mail only to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk clearly stating within this email which contract/notice you are referring to. Please also provide, as a minimum, a contact name, full company postal address and telephone number.
The closing date for receipt of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is 24.4.2015 (12:00). Tenderers are required to ensure that documents are obtained and returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by e-mail to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk by the above closing date and time. Policy documents (where indicated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire) shall be uploaded to The Litmus Partnership Limited pre-qualification website prior to this closing date and time.
It will be the Tenderer’s responsibility to obtain any necessary documents and access to The Litmus Partnership pre-qualification website 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 OJEU 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.
VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice: