Animal products, meat and meat products

Tender description

ESPO will be undertaking a procurement process to identify and appoint suppliers for the supply and distribution of a range of Meat, Meat Products, Poultry and Game within the geographical regions of Norfolk and Devon. Norse Commercial Services (NCS) and Devon Norse Ltd (DNL) provide meals to education, social care departments and for work and civic based catering within Norfolk and Devon. The requirement will be split into two regional lots as follows:— Lot 1 Norfolk— Lot 2 DevonA maximum of 1 supplier will be appointed per lot. Whilst the principle users of the contract will be schools, social care departments and work and civic establishments, other establishments that are operated by NCS and DNL may opt to take advantage of the contract throughout the term. In addition to mainstream/general meat and poultry products, the appointed suppliers will be asked to provide Red Tractor / Farm Assured and/or Organic certificated products across the range of meats including Beef, Lamb, Pork and Poultry to all establishments within the regional lots. In order to express an interest in tendering for this future opportunity at the relevant time and/or requesting any further information, please see details below and please ensure you refer to instructions and guidance available: (a) Go to www.eastmidstenders.org (b) (If you are not already registered) Register your company by selecting the ‘Register’ box on the top of the home page, (c) Once registered visit the home page select ‘View Opportunities’ then ‘Search Latest Opportunities', from the ‘Organisation' drop down box select ‘ESPO', click search (options) and select the appropriate opportunity ‘114N_DN_16 Meat, Meat Products, Poultry and Game’, (d) Express an interest by selecting the ‘Register Interest’ box at the bottom of the screen. You should receive a notification email confirming your expression of interest, (e) Once fully registered, you should download the tender when it becomes available and you are notified via email.Interested parties should also note that final submissions must be made only via ProContract, no other submission route is permitted. Failure to follow this path will result in the tender submission being disregarded.All documents pertaining to this opportunity will be available for download via the ProContract portal at the relevant time. Please ensure you are able to download all files after accessing the ProContract portal.If you have any query regarding the content or require further information, please use the discussion tools provided within the website. If you experience any problems with registration or expression of interest, please refer any queries on Portal operation to support@due-north.com or telephone +44 1670597136.Note: You will receive email notifications regarding your expression of interest or other important actions on the system. Email alerts may be blocked by your company’s SPAM filter. Please contact your ICT department to ensure that emails from the domain “@due-north.com” are excluded from the SPAM filter “blocked addresses”.