School catering services

Tender description

The successful tenderer will be required to provide catering services at Holy Family Catholic Primary School and Christ the King Catholic Primary School. The tender project is seeking to appoint a Contractor whose initiative and innovation will be welcomed for the provision of services within the existing facilities for the students and teaching and support staff, with a focus on exciting new food concepts to satisfy a wide range of pupil tastes and dietary requirements. The Schools would wish the successful contractor to review the current range of services offered and make recommendations accordingly. The contract being tendered is for three years in duration from August 2016 and will operate as a Guaranteed Performance Contract, with the successful Contractor offering the Schools a guaranteed cost per annum for the provision of catering services. Sovereignty of the meal tariff is to remain with the Schools for the duration of this contract. Holy Family Catholic Primary School strive daily to create an atmosphere of welcome, compassion and acceptance to all who enter the School. Holy Family are very much a ‘family’ School that cultivate and nurture attitudes of support, respect and care in all activities and relationships and for all children. Equally important is learning. Holy Family set high standards in everything that they do and strongly believe in the importance of the core skills of reading, writing and mathematics. At Holy Family, all believe that primary School education is an experience that all children should enjoy to the full and they therefore offer a broad, balanced and engaging curriculum, striving to meet the needs of all children. Holy Family care passionately about providing all of the 472 children on roll, with an education that will prepare them for life in the 21st century. They want their children to be confident, independent learners who know how to make informed decisions about the choices they make in life. Estimated income at Holy Family Catholic Primary School 2016-2017: KS1 (UIFSM & FSM): 50 000 GBP; Paid Meals: 26 600 GBP; Total: 76 600 GBP. Pupils at Christ the King Catholic Primary School are surrounded by a vibrant, inclusive learning environment based on a Catholic ethos of compassion, love and respect. Christ the King strive to impart to all of the 419 pupils on roll, a wide range of knowledge and intellectual, artistic and sporting skills and to arouse and nurture within them, an eager spirit of enquiry and wonder. Christ the King's teaching philosophy is centred on an environment of mutual respect, where the staff, the pupils and the whole community work together for the common aim of educating the children in their care, to achieve the highest standards of competence and ability and to be responsible and worthy citizens of the world. Estimated income at Christ the King Catholic Primary School 2016-2017: KS1 (UIFSM & FSM): 57 760 GBP; Paid Meals: 19 000 GBP; Total: 76 760 GBP.