Awarded contract

Supply of on-board Food and Beverage

Details

Buyer: Transport for Wales
Supplier(s): Castell Howell Foods Ltd
Value: £292,000
Topic: Food, beverages, tobacco and related products
Published: 11 February 2025
Source: uk:sell2wales

Tender description

TFW Catering have a requirement for Food & Beverage supplier for our retail and premier restaurant service operations. To supply into Transport for Wales four catering service centres based at Carmarthen, Newport, Shrewsbury, Chester. Lot 1: TFW Catering have a requirement for Food & Beverage supplier for our retail and premier restaurant service operations. To supply into Transport for Wales four catering service centres based at Carmarthen, Newport, Shrewsbury, Chester. The successfully tender would Satisfy localised procurement focusing on local suppliers and supporting Welsh economy. They would Support TFW in achieving objectives of being plastic free in 2023 as well as the future generations act. To collaborate our Premier Blas fresh food offering principles. Meet all food safety legalisation. Offer full traceability of products. Work with and support local Welsh suppliers.

Timeline

Completed: Award date10 August 2023
Completed: Award published11 February 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

Transport for Wales runs and develops the country's rail, bus and active travel networks, buying as a central body with its own procurement and supply chain team. Every tender is advertised on Sell2Wales, the Welsh government's open tendering portal, where registration is free for suppliers. Above-threshold opportunities are also published on the UK government's Find a Tender Service. A dedicated procurement portal now carries every new tender opportunity. Pipeline notices and preliminary market engagement notices give suppliers early sight of contracts still to come. Procurement decisions follow the Procurement Act 2023 and the Procurement (Wales) Regulations 2024.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of Transport for Wales's contract awards have been in business services, construction work and IT services.

Relevant CPV codes

15000000 · Food, beverages, tobacco and related products

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@transport-for-wales.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@transport-for-wales.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@transport-for-wales.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@transport-for-wales.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@transport-for-wales.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@transport-for-wales.gov