CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

Hove Park School, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom.

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

The successful tenderer will be required to provide catering services at Hove Park School. The School has two sites, Upper and Lower schools, both with their own separate catering facilities. Below is an extract from the School's prospectus.

Hove Park is a happy and vibrant school, a school where children and children's achievement come first.

At Hove Park, we are absolutely committed to ensuring that our young people achieve well in terms of their Academic Performance. That is why for two of the last three years we have been in the top 1 % most improved schools nationally and why we have had five years of consecutive and substantive improvements in exam results. This year it meant that we had better progress for all students across the board- in fact more students have advanced further in their learning during their time at HPS than ever before! Our overall attainment has also improved, which means that this year, more students have got better grades in more subjects.

The gap between the achievement of vulnerable students and other students has also continued to narrow, partly because of our innovative use of technology to support learning.

At Hove Park we are especially passionate about teaching. We recognise that the quality of any school system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers and that is why we place such an emphasis on the craft of teaching. We are really proud of our teachers and our wider workforce, which are both of the highest calibre and are fully committed to the same agenda of raising standards for all of our students.

Our OFSTED from 2013 highlighted the rapid transformation, visionary leadership and increasingly outstanding quality of teaching in the school, as well as praising the school for its unrelenting focus on raising standards for all students.

It is fair to say however, that we have not rested on our laurels. This last year has seen the school take a leading role nationally and internationally in the use of iPads for all students on a one-to-one basis. This has led to a radical transformation in the quality of and access to learning styles and pedagogies that are secured by outstanding access to digital learning. It has also led to a substantial narrowing of the gap in the academic outcomes between different socio-economic groups of students. It is this approach that really does enable us to deliver a world class education for all of our children.

At the same time we have enriched our curriculum to provide a much greater diversity in terms of creative learning. For example our Year 7 Art and Technology teaching now allows for a whole day of Creative Education and ‘Making'. It is no longer chunked into small parts with students having to pack up at the end of an hour and start again in a week's time! We also have five full-time Drama Teachers — an indication of the value we place on empowering our students with an all-round education that is as rich in creative input as it is focused on core literacy and numeracy skills.

At the other end of our curriculum offer, our 6th form provision has gone from strength to strength. We have had another very successful record set of A-Level results and the number of students joining the 6th form this year has doubled on the same time last year. A real indication that the quality on offer is continuing to improve and engage students' interest.

This year we are also working in very close partnership with one of our feeder schools, West Blatchington Primary, to provide a strong basis for an all-through education. We are supporting them in their journey to becoming a ‘good' school in their next OFSTED and the cross-phase work that we are engaged in is proving to be of real benefit to both schools.

The contract being offered commences on 1.8.2015 for a period of 3 years.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

Tenderers will be required to complete and submit a pre-qualification questionnaire and associated documentation to The Litmus Partnership Limited website.

Minimum standards for participation are stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

Failure to achieve a pass in any of the minimum standards will result in your exclusion from any further part in this process.

Conviction of criminal offences — questions are stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

Business Probity — questions are stated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

The contract is restricted to sheltered workshops
The execution of the contract is restricted to the framework of sheltered employment programmes

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

A minimum of 5 suppliers and a maximum of 10 suppliers will be taken forward to the tender stage of the process. Where less than 5 suppliers meet the minimum standards, only those that meet the minimum standards will be taken through to the tender stage. Where more than 5 suppliers meet the minimum standard, those suppliers with the highest scores will proceed to the tender stage.

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

VI.3)

Additional Information

Interest in the pre-qualification process should be expressed via email only to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk, clearly stating within this email which contract / notice you are referring to. Please also provide, as a minimum, a contact name, full company postal address and telephone number.

The closing date for receipt of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is 21.1.2015 (12:00). Tenderers are required to ensure that documents are obtained and returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to pqq@litmuspartnership.co.uk, by the above closing date and time. Policy documents (where indicated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire) shall be uploaded to The Litmus Partnership Limited pre-qualification website prior to this closing date and time.

It will be the Tenderer's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents and access to The Litmus Partnership pre-qualification website in order to submit a response by the closing date and time.

The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this OJEU notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time.

The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity.

The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid.

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

VI.4.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice