Open Early Engagement - Coventry University Enterprises Ltd - Conference and Hospitality Services
Details
- Buyer
- Coventry University
- Topic
- Catering services
- Published
- 9 February 2024
- Source
- uk:contracts_finder
Tender description
We are looking for potential catering and hospitality service providers to partner with us to run our award-winning Conference Centre, located at Coventry University Technology Park in Coventry, and our off-site facility at Westwood Health including campus-wide Hospitality. Prospective providers will be required to operate our conference and hospitality service provision. To prepare for this we are conducting an early market engagement to obtain a better understanding of the current market and identify potential service providers, therefore, publishing this PIN without call for competition only at this stage. The requirement: - Conference and Hospitality Services - Conference services including daily duty management, food and beverage provision, fine dining, and function staff were applicable. - Catering, and hospitality services to various tenants located in CUE's Technology Park and across the main campus. - Management and operation of the on-site Restaurant facility. Our needs will include: •A high-quality service providing affordable, nutritious, and healthy hot and cold food options from both the Conference Centre, hospitality, and the on-site Restaurant. •To include an out-of-hours fine dining catering provision which may be off-site. •Catering for small to large hospitality events on a day-to-day basis across campus. A formal tender process will follow. If you would like to find out more about us and the opportunity above, please reply to this call for further details regarding the supplier engagement days to be held in March 2024 - giving the name/s of the representative/s attending (no more than 2) and your company/business name (registration closes at 5:00 pm on 12th March 2024), via our In-tend portal, https://in-tendhost.co.uk/coventryuniversity/aspx/Home. We are open-minded and are interested to hear suggestions on how you believe the operation can be run.
Timeline
- Completed: Pre-tender published9 February 2024Current notice
About the buyer
Coventry University buys as a higher education institution, with a centralised procurement team based in its Finance Department at the Armstrong Siddeley Building. Suppliers must complete a competitive tender process before they gain approved status. Tenders run by the University are advertised on the Delta e-tendering platform. Larger contracts are also published as a contract notice on Find a Tender. Coventry University belongs to the Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium, a collaborative buying group for more than one hundred higher and further education institutions. Further competitions run on the framework agreements the consortium negotiates across most commodity areas.
Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.
Over the past 5 years, most of Coventry University's contract awards have been in software and information systems, business services and IT services.
Relevant CPV codes
- 55520000 · Catering services
Decision makers
Connect with the people behind this procurement.
| Contact name | Job title | Phone number | Work email |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head of Procurement | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@coventry-university.gov | |
| Commercial Director | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@coventry-university.gov | |
| Procurement Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@coventry-university.gov | |
| Category Lead | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@coventry-university.gov | |
| Senior Buyer | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@coventry-university.gov | |
| Contracts Manager | +44 •••• •••••• | ••••••••@coventry-university.gov |
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