St. Mary's Church of England High School - Cleaning Tender

Tender description

The supplier is to provide excellent cleaning services at St Mary's CofE High School. This is to include both term time cleaning and periodic deep cleaning in the holiday periods. Lot 1: St Mary’s is an 11 – 19 co-educational, comprehensive school with Academy status and an admission number of 240 for each new Year 7 cohort. At St Mary’s you will always find a welcome that is built on a strong Christian ethos and excellent relationships between adults and students. “An exceptionally inclusive and caring community” SIAMS Inspection (2020) St Mary’s CE High School is committed to providing a safe and caring learning environment founded on Christian principles. We continue to develop an excellent standard of education for all students allowing each individual to achieve their full potential regardless of ability or background. We moved to our new site on Lieutenant Ellis Way in April 2010. The new school buildings provide an exceptional learning environment. Our facilities include a full size sports hall and main hall, drama studios, an outdoor amphitheatre, dedicated computer suites, a Learning Resource Centre and Student Centre as well as social spaces for each year group. It is served by industrial standard IT facilities. An extension to the buildings to provide twelve new classrooms including two Science labs and two Technology Workshops will almost complete the original planned eight form entry school building. The final stage of the school building completed in 2018 accommodates our growing sixth form and adds the final two ‘corners’ to the sixth form block. Further information can be found here: https://st-maryshigh.herts.sch.uk/   Tender information: The successful tenderer will be required to provide cleaning services to the School. The contract term being tendered is for three years 1st September 2025 – 31st August 2028. There is an option for a further extension period for up to two additional years to 31st August 2030. The contract offers an excellent opportunity to review and propose enhancements to the current cleaning services at the School. This includes both core term time cleaning over the 190 days of the academic year, plus holiday/ inset day and periodic deep cleaning throughout the year. The school is keen to secure a high quality cleaning service whereby it’s students are able to enjoy excellence in education, supported by excellently kept facilities. The school expects both a tightly managed service and high levels of productivity to be delivered by the cleaning staff at all times. The school is also proud of it’s ‘family ethos’ and expects a management style delivered by the successful contractor that supports, encourages and develops the cleaning staff. The school is not obliged to accept the lowest price submitted for this tender, rather the school is keen to secure ‘best value’ from this contract and to deliver a great learning environment to it’s students. Innovative and creative ideas as to how the cleaning services can be developed and improved, will be welcomed. The school seeks a contractor that is keen to work in partnership and who will deliver to it’s highest abilities, at all times. The contract shall be a fixed price contract with invoices raised monthly to the school. Additional requirements and information: •The School has a minimum requirement for a contractor’s employers' liability and public liability insurance of £5 million •The minimum annual turnover that your company must have achieved to be considered for this opportunity is £1 million •There are incumbent cleaning staff currently within the Local Government Pension Scheme •The cleaning services are currently contracted to Cleantec •The successful contractor is required to pay the tender management fee directly to RIVA Partnership, upon contract award Additional information: To respond to this opportunity please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/7NQR568RBJ