FCT050F Catering & Hospitality Services Framework

Tender description

Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (the “Contracting Authority”) is issuing this request for tenders (“RFT”) as a central purchasing body for use by the Framework Clients (defined below). The Office of Government Procurement (the “OGP”) is an office within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform tasked with sourcing goods and services on behalf of the public service. References to the Contracting Authority will be deemed to include the OGP. The Contracting Authority invites tenders (“Tenders”) from economic operators (“Tenderers”) for appointment to a multi-supplier framework agreement (the “Framework Agreement”)] for the provision of the services as described in Appendix 1 to this RFT (the “Services”). In summary, the Services comprise: Catering & Hospitality Services as follows: (i) Nil cost /nil subsidy - where the appointed economic operator pays no fee to the framework client to operate the canteen service and the framework Client pays no subsidy fee to the economic operator; and (ii) Fixed subsidy – where the framework client pays a fixed annual subsidy fee to the appointed economic operator to operate the canteen service.