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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 5 days ago Contract notice

National Framework Agreement for Total Food Management

Open United Kingdom Food & beverages

Buyer Countess of chester hospital NHS foundation trust

34 days left

Key facts

Closes
17:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€53.6M
€53,553,577 · converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure Anyone may submit a bid, in one step, with no pre-selection. Full entry
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Description

The objective of this framework is to offer an end-to-end approach to food and beverage procurement, distribution, preparation, waste management, and reporting for public sector organisations, using a single supplier. Most public sector organisations currently contract multiple suppliers for different parts of their food and beverage services, ingredients, catering staff, logistics, and waste management. This often leads to operational complexity, duplication of effort, and lack of integration across procurement, nutrition, sustainability, and waste reduction

Timing

40 days from publication to deadline. Usual length in United Kingdom: 30 days. Longer than usual

  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline
  4. Awarded pending
More figures

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 26 and 36 days, based on 2,023 notices of the last two years.

Bid or no-bid?

2 of 6 answered from the register

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €53.6M.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Food & beverages.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    34 days left, 25 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €122,039 and €980,504.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 42 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 5 days ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

Market

Food & beverages in United Kingdom

median award in this market
€245,236
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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 36 awards for Food & beverages in United Kingdom.

This notice
€53.6M
Median award
€245,236
Middle half of past awards
€122,039 to €980,504

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Market context

Larger than 98% of the open notices in Food & beverages across Europe.

open now in Food & beverages
3,066
median open notice
€273,500

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Food & beverages

different companies won awards here
35
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
16%
buyers awarded contracts here
29

Based on 43 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

The buyer in figures

Countess of chester hospital NHS foundation trust

notices in the register
42
awards
29

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
27
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
14%

Based on 28 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Countess of chester hospital NHS foundation trust

United Kingdom

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Food & beverages - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Tiffin Sandwiches Ltd 3 €92.2M Sep 2026
BFS Group Ltd T/A Bidfood 2 €11.7M Sep 2026
William Yule & Son Limited 2 €8.2M Sep 2026
Sysco GB Limited (t/a Brakes) 2 €4.1M Sep 2026
Campbells Prime Meat Ltd 2 €1.2M Oct 2026

Based on 43 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

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How we count
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