Nottinghamshire County Council - Joint Venture Partner - Catering and FM

Description

Nottinghamshire County Council (the Authority) is seeking to appoint a Provider to establish a joint venture to manage and operate to deliver (i) catering and facilities management (FM) services to the Authority; (ii) catering and/or FM services to schools; (iii) the County Enterprise Food Management services contract for the Authority; (iv) third party revenue growth for these services including through the management and operation of the County Enterprise Foods business. Further details can be found in the procurement documents. The main subject-matter of the services being procured are “light regime” services and falls under Regulations 74-76 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 which govern the award of light regime service contracts. The Authority is using a procurement process modelled on the competitive dialogue procedure and the procurement documents describe this process in further detail. Lot 1: Continued from II.1.4 - The joint venture will operate for an initial period of 5 years with an option to extend to 5 years (a maximum duration of 10 years). The duration of contracts awarded to the joint venture will however vary. Further information on the scope of the opportunity can be found in the procurement documents. The Authority intends to invite the 5 highest scoring compliant SQ responses to the tender and dialogue stages of the competition. Bidders should note that the procurement documents issued with this Contract Notice are draft documents at this stage, providing indicative information of the Authority’s intended approach to the procurement process and are for general information only. The Authority reserves the right to vary, amend and update any aspects of the procurement documents and final details and versions of the procurement documents will be confirmed to applicants successful in being selected to participate in the tender stages of the process Additional information: The estimated value in II.1.5 and II.2.6. represent the current turnover of the range of services as presently delivered by the Council to its customers (a breakdown is set out in the procurement documents). However, potential returns will depend on many commercial factors including (but not limited to) the performance of the Provider and market conditions. Bidders should therefore seek independent legal and commercial advice in relation to the potential value of the opportunity as a whole Bidders should note that these indicative figures are estimated values and the services delivered by the JV may increase or decrease (in scope and volume) and so actual demand and usage may differ over the term of the JV