The Tiffin Girls' School - Cleaning Tender

Tender description

The successful Supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for The Tiffin Girls' School, Richmond Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, KT2 5PL. Lot 1: The Tiffin Girls’ School is a Selective Secondary Grammar School in Kingston upon Thames, South-West London. The school was founded in 1880 and continues to provide an education where students can live up to the School’s motto sapere aude – dare to be wise. In October 2021, The Tiffin Girls’ School achieved ‘Outstanding’ following an Ofsted inspection. The tender project is seeking to appoint a Cleaning Contractor to provide and sustain high level state of core cleaning of the facilities for the 1235 students on roll and 127 teaching and support staff during term time. The school has a large number of hirers of the facilities so additional cleaning during holiday periods for lettings and events will be required in addition to the cleaning contract. As an Academy, we can set our own term dates, but we tend to be open to receive students for approximately 190 days, but this varies year to year. The contract offered covers the scope for the provision of all cleaning services within the School, which currently includes, academic classrooms, meeting spaces, including halls, science rooms, in recent years it has seen the addition of new buildings Rivermead built 2019 providing new drama and D&T facilities and spectacular new Sports Centre completed September 2022. Total square metre is approximately 11,153m2. Site plans attached. The contract being tendered is for three years in duration from April 2023 to March 2026 and will operate as a Fixed Priced Contract, with the successful Contractor offering the School a guaranteed return / cost per annum for the provision of cleaning services. Whilst the School prioritises value for money as a key objective of the Competitive Tender Process, the Governing body is not obliged to accept the lowest price. The annual value of the current contract is: - £141,169 The Tiffin Girls’ School expects the successful contractor to enable the continued development of cleaning services and to evidence, through their bid, how they shall support and complement its values and support the principles of the school, including the safeguarding of the students. As a school we are continually seeking ways to improve and develop the ethos and environment for all students and staff to provide them with the facilities they deserve. See SQ Document for further information.