Stale Pre-tender

Poole Museum Café, Catering and Hospitality Concession

Details

Topic
Canteen and catering services
Published
15 October 2024

Tender description

BCP Council plans to appoint a café / catering/ hospitality operator to open and manage a café and provide catering/ hospitality as a concession contract from the newly refurbished Museum (situated on the Lower High Street in the Old Town area of Poole, Dorset) from Spring 2025. We are engaging with the supply market early to seek new and innovative ideas and better understand what is possible. This will inform our requirements and promote the planned tender process. Our formal tender process is planned for late 2024 once we have completed market engagement. Interested parties must submit their completed Early Market Engagement Questionnaire via the www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk portal by the deadline shown on the system. Lot 1: BCP Council plans to appoint a café / catering/ hospitality operator to open and manage a café and provide catering/ hospitality as a concession contract from the newly refurbished Museum (situated on the Lower High Street in the Old Town area of Poole, Dorset) from Spring 2025. We are engaging with the supply market early to seek new and innovative ideas and better understand what is possible. This will inform our requirements and promote the planned tender process. Our formal tender process is planned for late 2024 once we have completed market engagement. Interested parties must submit their completed Early Market Engagement Questionnaire via the www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk portal by the deadline shown on the system.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published15 October 2024
    Current notice

About the buyer

Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council is a local authority that buys through its Procurement and Contract Management Service, a team of 24 procurement and contract management professionals. Every openly advertised opportunity is published on Find a Tender. Bids are invited through ProContract, where suppliers register to receive notifications and express interest. The team runs a category management approach that gives a cross-council view of every spend area. A searchable contracts register lists awarded contracts, frameworks, concessions and dynamic purchasing systems. Goods, services and works are bought either by invitation to quote or by competitive tender.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council's contract awards have been in health and social work, IT services and transport equipment.

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  • 55500000 · Canteen and catering services

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