Tendering opportunities
 

Expressions of interest for the supply and delivery of hot community meals

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (Adult Services) invites suitably experienced and qualified organisations to work in partnership with both Council’s in order to develop a high quality community meals supply and delivery service to people living in the community.
Interested organisations must be aware that TUPE may apply.

Outline of the service

• The successful Organisation will supply and deliver approximately one thousand eight hundred and ninety hot meals per week to service users in the Borough of Tameside.

• The service will be provided three hundred and sixty-five days of the year.

• The Supply and delivery of meals at weekends and Bank Holidays will be at a level to be determined as demand is established.

Start and end date: It is proposed that the Contract will commence on 1 October 2009 and will run for a period of three years to 30 September 2012. The Council may, subject to approval and re-negotiation, wish to extend the Contract for a further period of up to two years.

The award of the contract will be in keeping with a Best Value approach, which will jointly evaluate quality and price-related factors.

Deadline: All documentation must be completed and submitted electronically by using Vault through BiPs Delta-ets by 22 January 2009 at 12:00 hrs.

Tender submission packs will follow week commencing 19 February 2009. The closing date for tender submissions for those organisations short-listed is 2 April 2009. Short-listed organisations will be invited to a presentation, week commencing 25 May 2009.

Documents are available via the Delta Suite; go to www.delta-ets.com. The tender access code is 04T239557. If you experience problems, please contact the Delta helpdesk: helpdesk@delta-ets.com or call 0845 270 7050.

For more information: Contact Kim Greeves email: kim.greeves@tameside.gov.uk

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Local tender worth nearly £1/2m

Health Contact. Tameside & Glossop Primary Care Trust,  Tel: 0161 304 5300, www.tamesideandglossop.nhs.uk

Description
To facilitate the long-term rehabilitation of people with a history of drug misuse. Total final value of contract(s): Value: £495,000
File reference number: T1017.

For more information register for free on:
www.supply2.gov.uk/cgi-bin/events.cgi?action=events_diary

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Futurebuilders launches new Tender Fund

Futurebuilders England today launched a new interest-free loan fund for third sector organisations struggling to meet the cost of tendering for public sector contracts. The £1m Tender Fund is intended to help third sector providers win contracts where prohibitive tendering costs would otherwise make it difficult for them to bid.

Jonathan Lewis, Chief Executive of Futurebuilders England said: 'We know there are organisations with the skills to bid for and win public sector contracts who simply can’t afford the costs involved in preparing competitive bids. Our conversations with the sector tell us that providers often need money to fund tendering related costs such as legal bills, financial expertise, staffing backfill and advice from procurement specialists. We are determined to get as many third sector organisations as possible winning contracts to deliver public services, and we feel this new Fund is one way we can help.'

Amount: The new Tender Fund will provide interest-free three year loans of between £3,000 and £50,000. This will help organisations who simply need a smaller sum of money to get them through the tendering stage.
For further information: Call 0191 261 5200 or email info@futurebuilders-england.org.uk 
Closing date: There is no closing date for applications, and the Fund will be available on a first come, first served basis until the £1m runs out.

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Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (TMBC) tendering opportunities:

For a list of contracts that are being renewed within the next six months, for which tenders are invited see www.tameside.gov.uk/procurement/tenders

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