School cleaning services

Tender description

The successful Supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for St Thomas More R C Academy. St Thomas More is an 11-18 mixed, converter academy and part of the Hexham and Newcastle Partnership. The school serves the catholic population within the St Oswins deanery in North Shields and has an excellent reputation locally, regionally and nationally for the quality of its education, pastoral care and levels of achievement. It has been recognised by the Minister of State for Schools as one of the top 100 schools in England and Wales. The school has the capacity for 1 700 students which includes up to 350 in the sixth form. In order to ensure that it continues to receive value for money, the school wishes to put the cleaning services out to competitive tender with a new contract to commence 1.9.2017 on the basis of a 3-year contract with the option to extend for a further 2 years. Expressions of interest are invited from Suppliers with experience of providing cleaning services in this sector and with the resource to support cleaning services within this geographical region.