Open competition
Open procedure: the contract was advertised and any supplier could submit a bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Espo · Regional or local authority
- Suppliers
- apetito Ltd, BFS Group Limited T/A Bidfood, County Enterprise Foods part of Nottinghamshire County Council, I Care (GB) Ltd, NH Case Ltd SME
- Value
- £20,000,000 across 2 lots
- Procedure
- Open procedure
- Sector
- Food & drink · Miscellaneous food products (CPV 15800000)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Official notice
- 001754-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date5 Jan 2021
- Published28 Jan 2021Published 23 days after the contract date
Description
Supply of a range of frozen complete single portion main meals and desserts. The following infomation is applicable to all lots: ESPO has established a commercial trading company, ESPO Trading Ltd, whose target clients are third sector organisations such as national and local charities, public sector mutual organisations and other organisations involved in the delivery of services to or for the public sector. The successful supplier may be asked to enter into an additional separate framework agreement (the second framework) with ESPO Trading Ltd on materially similar terms to that found in the tender pack to be entered into by ESPO itself. Any second framework agreement will be a purely commercial agreement and will, for the avoidance of doubt, not be governed by the Public Contract Regulations 2015 or other public procurement legislation. ESPO Trading Ltd may enter into the second framework agreement with the successful supplier and make it available to third sector clients who themselves are not required to follow the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or other public procurement legislation. Accordingly, this is provided for bidders' information only. An eAuction process may be used to award subsequent call off contracts following the reopening of competition among the parties to the framework agreement.
Lots in this award
| Lot | Supplier | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 58_21 Ready Meals: Single Portion Ready Meals | apetito Ltd, BFS Group Limited T/A Bidfood, County Enterprise Foods part of Nottinghamshire County Council, I Care (GB) Ltd, NH Case Ltd SME | £16m |
| 58_21 Ready Meals: Multi-Portion Meal Components | apetito Ltd, BFS Group Limited T/A Bidfood, I Care (GB) Ltd, NH Case Ltd SME | £4m |
About the suppliers
apetito Ltd: every public contract they have won.
BFS Group Limited T/A Bidfood: every public contract they have won.
County Enterprise Foods part of Nottinghamshire County Council: every public contract they have won.
I Care (GB) Ltd: every public contract they have won.
NH Case Ltd: every public contract they have won.