Barnet Schools Cluster - Catering Tender apr27

What the buyer is asking for

Educo Consultancy & Facilities Management are completing a two-stage competitive tendering procedure through the mytenders portal for the catering services to provide pupil meals on behalf of four Primary Schools in the London Borough of Barnet. This is stage 1 of the process to seek potential interest in the opportunity.

How this is scored

Published by the buyer. A winning response is written to these weightings, not to the question.

• 20%qualityOrganisations Financial Statuscompletion of section 8.0 of SQ
• 80%qualityTechnicalResponses to Section 9.0

4 lots

You can usually bid for one lot without bidding for all of them.

• Annunciation Infant & Junior School£803k

  term time catering to provide pupil lunches

• Danegrove PS£653k

  provision of term time school meals

• Holy Trinity CE£400k

  provision of school meals term time only

• St Catherine's Catholic PS£1.0m

  provision of term time pupil meals

How contested is this?

Buyers publish how many bids they received. Across 34 comparable procurements we can tell you the typical field size, how often one of these goes uncontested, and whether the buyer awards on price or on quality.

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London

1. Tender notice published23 days ago

   14 Oct 2026, 09:46 BST
2. Clarification questions by2 days ago

   4 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
3. Submission deadlinein 5 days

   11 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
4. Award decision expected byin 112 days

   26 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT

Commercial outcome and contract awards

Nothing awarded yet

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender

1. Tender notice14 Oct 2026, 09:46 BST096809-2026

Documents

• Selection Questionnaire
• example agreement
• Tender notice on Find a Tender