Newham Cluster - Catering Tender Apr27

What the buyer is asking for

Educo Consultancy & Facilities Management are completing a competitive tendering procedure for the term-time provision of school lunches and catering services on behalf of 7 schools in the London Borough of Newham through the mytenders portal. This is stage 1 of the process to seek potential interest in the opportunity with Educo seeking sufficiently experienced contract catering companies to formally express their interest and engage in the Tendering process, by completing the questionnaire within this tender. This tender will be posted as 7 Lots and each School ultimately will, independently select their preferred supplier. Consideration will be given to responses within Stage 2 to identify the benefit provided by the Contractor if all the schools select a single preferred supplier. Further detail with regard the procedure may be found int eh Selection Questionnaire uploaded to this posting.

How this is scored

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

• 20%qualityFinancial statuscompletion of Section 8.0 of SQ
• 80%qualityTechnicalresponse to section 9.0 of SQ

7 lots

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

• Avenue Primary School£1.4m

  term-time pupil meal provision at Avenue Primary School

• Central Park Primary School£2.3m

  term time provision of pupil meals at Central Park Primary School

• Ellen Wilkinson Primary School£1.3m

  term time provision of pupil meals at Ellen Wilkinson Primary School

• Maryland Primary School£1.0m

  term time provision of pupil meals at Maryland Primary School

• Sandringham Primary School£2.8m

  term time provision of pupil meals at Sandringham Primary School

• Southern Road Primary School£2.1m

  term time provision of pupil meals at Southern Road Primary School

• St Luke's CofE Primary School£591k

  term time provision of pupil meals at St Luke's CofE Primary School

How contested is this?

Buyers publish how many bids they received. Across 18 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 published14 days ago

   23 Oct 2026, 11:17 BST
2. Clarification questions byin 14 days

   20 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
3. Submission deadlinein 21 days

   27 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
4. Award decision expected byin 106 days

   20 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 notice23 Oct 2026, 11:17 BST100349-2026

Documents

• Selection Questionnaire
• EXAMPLE Catering Agreement
• Tender notice on Find a Tender