School catering services

Description

The successful tenderer will be required to provide catering services at Monmouth Comprehensive School. The contract covers the scope for the provision of all catering and vending services within the School, which also includes all hospitality and free issue requirements. The duration of the contract being offered is three years commencing on 1.6.2016 and concluding on 31.5.2019. The contract being offered within this tender will be based on a guaranteed performance basis with all free issue requirements and hospitality being recharged on consumption at ‘net’ food cost only. Monmouth Comprehensive School will be moving into a new school during the course of this contract and building work commences in September 2015. It is expected that the contract will continue to run on a profit return with no subsidy ~ there is no subsidy associated with the contract. The School are looking for the successful tenderer to provide inward capital investment to refresh and rejuvenate the catering facilities and to also launch the new catering facilities within the new school. The quality of food provision will be critical and indeed your organisation must be flexible enough to source bakery, meat, fruit and vegetables and dairy products through local suppliers based in Wales which shall be no more than 20 miles from the School. It is expected that menus will feature and utilise products in season when available. All menus and the whole catering provision shall be compliant with the requirements of A4L. Customer engagement will be fundamental to the continuous improvement in the service provision and within your tender response your methodology to this will need to be detailed, along with examples of where this has been undertaken within similar contracts recently.