Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Award of contract for the council's school
meals catering service from 2021 to 2024 (with option to extend to
2026). Providing approximately 9,500 meals daily to pupils and
staff in the borough's primary and special schools, the new
contract has an estimated annual value c. £3.75m.
RESOLVED:
1. That the council award to Bidder A (as detailed in the Confidential Appendix to the Cabinet report) a contract for provision of the school meals catering service at Merton primary and special schools for a period of 3 years from 1 August 2021 with an option to extend for up to two further years at the discretion of the council.
2. That authority be delegated to the Director of Children, Schools and Families to exercise, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Children and Education, the council’s option to grant one or more extensions of the contract term for any period up to two further years beyond the expiry of the initial contract term on 31 July 2024.
3. Members are asked to note the new price charged for a school meal from 1 September 2021 will be £2.23 (currently £2.18) so that the estimated total value of this contract over the initial three year term will be approximately £11.5 million and over the extended term up to £19.2 million.
Report author: Murray Davies
Publication date: 24/03/2021
Date of decision: 22/03/2021
Decided at meeting: 22/03/2021 - Cabinet
Effective from: 30/03/2021
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