Food, beverages, tobacco and related products

Tender description

NEPO is seeking to procure a framework contract for the supply and distribution of food and general provisions, the resulting solution will require direct deliveries to a variety of Contracting Authority establishments on behalf of NEPO Member Authorities and Associate Members including but not limited to, schools and other public-sector catering premises. NEPO are using an open procedure for the procurement of this framework contract. The most economically advantageous tenderer will be awarded the framework contract. The opportunity can be accessed via the NEPO eTendering system. Suppliers wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the NEPO eTendering system. If not already registered, suppliers should register on the NEPO eTendering system at https://procontract.due-north.com/Register Tender responses must be submitted using the link above. Tender responses submitted via postal or email methods will not be accepted. If you require time-critical assistance on submitting your tender response, please contact the System Support Team on 03300050352. For not time-critical issues, such as passwords, general account queries and location of information, etc., please contact the Proactics Supplier Support Helpdesk Ticketing System (http://proactis.kayako.com/) and select ProContract V3 support. You will then need to log in or submit a ticket to register your issue. Alternatively, you can email ProContractSuppliers@proactics.com This will automatically log a support ticket on the Proactics Supplier Support Helpdesk. Successful suppliers will enter into a Framework Agreement in a form which is set out in the procurement documents. NEPO does not give any guarantee and/or warrant the actual value of services which will be placed with the successful suppliers by any client using the framework contract pursuant to this process and accepts no liability thereof. NEPO is a central purchasing body as defined in the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (PCR15). Lot 1: general provisions of the agreement will be available for use by all NEPO Members. A list of NEPO members is available in the About section of the NEPO website: www.nepo.org This agreement will also be made available to all current and future NEPO Associate Members. Current Associate Members are listed on the NEPO website at: www.nepo.org/associate-membership/list NEPO intends to make the resulting agreement available for use by all Contracting Authorities throughout all administrative regions of the UK. A complete list of permissible users is shown on the NEPO website below: www.nepo.org/associate-membership/permissable-users Organisations wishing to access the NEPO agreement will be required to register as a NEPO Associate Member in the first instance. NEPO are using an open procedure for the procurement of this framework contract. The opportunity can be accessed via the NEPO eTendering system. Suppliers wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the NEPO eTendering system. If not already registered, suppliers should register on the NEPO eTendering system at https://procontract.due-north.com/Register Tender responses must be submitted using the link above. Tender responses submitted via postal or email methods will not be accepted. If you require time-critical assistance on submitting your tender response, please contact the System Support Team on 03300050352. For not time-critical issues, such as passwords, general account queries and location of information, etc., please contact the Proactics Supplier Support Helpdesk Ticketing System (http://proactis.kayako.com/) and select ProContract V3 support. You will then need to log in or submit a ticket to register your issue. Alternatively, you can email ProContractSuppliers@proactics.com. This will automatically log a support ticket on the Proactics Supplier Support Helpdesk. Successful suppliers will enter into a Framework Agreement in a form which is set out in the procurement documents. NEPO does not give any guarantee and/or warrant the actual value of services which will be placed with the successful suppliers by any client using the framework contract pursuant to this process and accepts no liability thereof. NEPO is a Central Purchasing Body as defined in the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (PCR15). Lot 2: Frozen Food, of the agreement will be available for use by all NEPO Members. A list of NEPO members is available in the About section of the NEPO website: www.nepo.org This agreement will also be made available to all current and future NEPO Associate Members in the North East region. Current associate members are listed on the NEPO website at: www.nepo.org/associate-membership/list NEPO intends to make the resulting agreement available for use by all Contracting Authorities throughout all administrative regions of the North East of England. A complete list of permissible users is shown on the NEPO website below: www.nepo.org/associate-membership/permissable-users Organisations wishing to access the NEPO agreement will be required to register as a NEPO Associate Member in the first instance. NEPO are using an open procedure for the procurement of this framework contract. The opportunity can be accessed via the NEPO eTendering system. Suppliers wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the NEPO eTendering system. If not already registered, suppliers should register on the NEPO eTendering system at https://procontract.due-north.com/Register Tender responses must be submitted using the link above. Tender responses submitted via postal or email methods will not be accepted. If you require time-critical assistance on submitting your Tender response, please contact the System Support Team on 03300050352. For not time-critical issues, such as passwords, general account queries and location of information, etc., please contact the Proactics Supplier Support Helpdesk Ticketing System (http://proactis.kayako.com/) and select ProContract V3 support. You will then need to log in or submit a ticket to register your issue. Alternatively, you can email ProContractSuppliers@proactics.com This will automatically log a support ticket on the Proactics Supplier Support Helpdesk. Successful suppliers will enter into a Framework Agreement in a form which is set out in the procurement documents. NEPO does not give any guarantee and/or warrant the actual value of services which will be placed with the successful suppliers by any client using the framework contract pursuant to this process and accepts no liability thereof. NEPO is a Central Purchasing Body as defined in the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015). Lot 3: Fruit, vegetables, bread and eggs, of the agreement will be available for use by all NEPO Members. A list of NEPO members is available in the About section of the NEPO website: www.nepo.org This agreement will also be made available to all current and future NEPO Associate Members in the North East region. Current Associate Members are listed on the NEPO website at: www.nepo.org/associate-membership/list NEPO intends to make the resulting agreement available for use by all Contracting Authorities throughout all administrative regions of the North East of England. A complete list of permissible users is shown on the NEPO website below: www.nepo.org/associate-membership/permissable-users Organisations wishing to access the NEPO agreement will be required to register as a NEPO Associate Member in the first instance. NEPO are using an open procedure for the procurement of this framework contract. The opportunity can be accessed via the NEPO eTendering system. Suppliers wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and submit a tender through the NEPO eTendering system. If not already registered, suppliers should register on the NEPO eTendering system at https://procontract.due-north.com/Register Tender responses must be submitted using the link above. Tender responses submitted via postal or email methods will not be accepted. If you require time-critical assistance on submitting your tender response, please contact the System Support Team on 03300050352 For not time-critical issues, such as passwords, general account queries and location of information, etc., please contact the Proactics Supplier Support Helpdesk Ticketing System (http://proactis.kayako.com/) and select ProContract V3 support. You will then need to log in or submit a ticket to register your issue. Alternatively, you can email ProContractSuppliers@proactics.com This will automatically log a support ticket on the Proactics Supplier Support Helpdesk. Successful suppliers will enter into a Framework Agreement in a form which is set out in the procurement documents. NEPO does not give any guarantee and/or warrant the actual value of services which will be placed with the successful suppliers by any client using the framework contract pursuant to this process and accepts no liability thereof. NEPO is a Central Purchasing Body as defined in the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (PCR15). Lot 4: Meat, sausage and poultry, of the agreement will be available for use by all NEPO Members. A list of NEPO members is available in the About section of the NEPO website: www.nepo.org This agreement will also be made available to all current and future NEPO Associate Members in the North East region. Current associate members are listed on the NEPO website at: www.nepo.org/associate-membership/list NEPO intends to make the resulting agreement available for use by all Contracting Authorities throughout all administrative regions of the North East of England. A complete list of permissible users is shown on the NEPO website below: www.nepo.org/associate-membership/permissable-users Organisations wishing to access the NEPO agreement will be required to register as a NEPO Associate Member in the first instance.