Stale Pre-tender

Reimagining the Public (Staff & Visitor) Food Offer

Details

Topic
Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services
Published
23 February 2024

Tender description

CUH will be carrying out a procurement exercise for the delivery of public (staff and visitor) catering and retail services at the Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge. This initial Request for Information is being undertaken in order to obtain early market interest from, and an initial understanding of the providers ability to deliver the proposed contract, ahead of a formal procurement exercise. Additional information: For this RFI, CUH are wanting to hear as many fresh and innovative ideas from potential partners based around the key fundamental principles for the retail, catering and vending that have been developed by the CUH. These are: -Accessible -Affordable -Healthy -Sustainable -Variety and Experience Please contact surveys@coverpoint.co.uk for a copy of the RFI document by Friday 15th March 2024. We request that completed documents are returned by Friday 22nd March 2024. It is envisaged that the tender process will commence end May / early June 2024, with the new contract to commence February 2025.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published23 February 2024
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About the buyer

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS trust with its own procurement team. The trust runs Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. Suppliers register on its Bravo Solution e-tendering portal to bid for opportunities. Larger contracts are also advertised on the Find a Tender service. Some equipment and maintenance work is sourced through NHS Supply Chain. New builds, the Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital and Cambridge Children's Hospital, are driving IT and construction tenders.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, repair and maintenance and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 55000000 · Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services

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