Meat

Tender description

Dudley MBC wish to Contract for the supply of Meat, Meat Products to schools. All meat must be supplied fresh. The meat must be graded Prime or First Quality. The Supply of Meat and Meat Products. Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council seeking to establish a framework agreement for use by West Midlands boundary public sector bodies. The successful Contractor is required to take account of sustainable development e.g. environmental, social and economic impacts of delivery and to actively participate in the protection of the environment. Accordingly contract performance and conditions may relate in particular to social and environmental considerations. Please note that estimated usage figures provided in this notice are based on historical information and cannot be guaranteed under this contract. Dudley MBC will be utilising its e-procurement portal In-Tend for this procurement exercise. The Tender should be received no later than 5.1.2017 at 12:00 (noon) and will be available for download until 23:59 hours on 4.1.2017. URL: www.blackcountrybusiness.co.uk To access documents bidders are required to register with the website. This may be done in 2 ways: 1) Use the Register/Sign In button located on the Home screen or 2) Find the project under the All Opportunities link and use the Express Interest button. Companies who have previously registered with the website will be invited to input their login detail. New Users will be invited to go through the Registration wizard. New Users, upon registration will receive an automatic notification of their unique login details. Once an expression of interest has been accepted by the system, Users must log back into the system to access documents. Now they will appear under the My Tenders tab. Further assistance with the system may be obtained by contacting the System Administrator on 01384 814862 or contracts@dudley.gov.uk Guidance documents are also published under the Help screen which can be found on the home screen at www.blackcountrybusiness.co.uk Please note that the estimates given above for the potential value of this Framework Agreement cannot be guaranteed by the Framework owner. They are based on the best available knowledge at the time of compiling this Notice. Where information is absent the Framework owner has taken their own estimated contract value and extrapolated this to give potential bidders an indication of the potential value of this Framework Agreement. Please note that this is subject to the individual requirements of each potential participant. No potential participating Authority/Organisation can guarantee the level of business that may be generated by this arrangement. The Framework owner expressly reserves the right: i) Not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; ii) To make whatever changes it sees fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition; iii) To award contract in respect of any part(s) of the requirement covered by this notice; and iv) To award contract in stages and in no circumstances will the Council be liable for any costs incurred by candidates or organisations principally the 32 West Midlands local authorities including Educational Establishments, The West Midlands based Fire and Rescue Services, Police Services, Voluntary Community organisations (i.e. Charities) and Third Sector based Social Enterprises and the West Midlands NHS Health Organisations and Hospitals (i.e. NHS England, NHS Trusts).