Source: https://tendernation.io/opportunities/01a13c0f-1e1e-71a4-a59b-4bbf7217415d/north-durham-academy-and-consett-academy-tender-for-cleaning-services awarded GB restricted procedure Suitable for SMEs # North Durham Academy and Consett Academy - Tender for Cleaning Services. [The Litmus Partnership Ltd](https://tendernation.io/buyers/the-litmus-partnership-ltd) Estimated value £850,000 Published 5 Dec 2016 Deadline Closed 6 Jan 2017 ## Who can bid - Buyer says suitable for SMEs The buyer ticked “suitable for SMEs” on the notice. Anyone can still bid. [More contracts for small businesses and VCSEs](https://tendernation.io/opportunities/for-small-businesses) ## About this tender New College Durham is delighted to be the lead sponsor for both North Durham and Consett Academies. The College has established a strong reputation for providing high quality education and training for both young people and adults. The new Academy campus for North Durham, opened to students in 2013. This visionary project has created an inspiring, flexible learning environment for students and provide superb facilities for the local community. All facilities meet very high standards in environmental sustainability and have been built using the latest technologies and materials available. The new iconic campus reflects the Academy's ambition to be the leading provider of education in the area, with a bold design encompassing a wide and modern curriculum. High quality learning facilities will promote the best quality learning experience for students. The building design incorporates high aspirations for students, staff and the local area. An exciting, brand new facility for the community of Consett opened in September 2015. The new joint Consett Academy and Consett Leisure Centre is a fantastic and innovative building to inspire the whole community into active living and learning. 44 000 000 GBP has been invested in this major regeneration project and the state of the art features and shared facilities will make it a great new community resource. The facility offers a full range of indoor sports and outside the centre there are full rugby and football artificial turf pitches plus a number of floodlit multi-use games areas for netball, football, basketball and the like. The tender project is seeking to appoint a Contractor whose initiative and innovation will be welcomed for the provision of cleaning services within the facilities for both North Durham and Consett Academies. The high quality service levels proposed, should maintain excellent standards throughout, resulting in a pleasant environment for both the students and staff. The basis and rationale that the Client requires the successful contractor to operate to at all times, is being able to provide Academies that are fit for purpose and that the Contractor is proactive in the management of the contract, thus ensuring that all specifications are achieved and that the frequency of cleans is as detailed within the Tender Specification. The contract being tendered is for three years in duration from 1.8.2017 until 31.7.2020 and will be fixed price in nature, with the Contractor invoicing the Client for one-twelfth of the annual cost on a monthly basis. (Further information is available in the procurement documentation.) Additional information: Interest in the pre-qualification process should be expressed via email only to clearly stating within this email which contract / notice you are referring to. Please also provide, as a minimum, a contact name, full company postal address and telephone number. The pre-qualification questionnaire and associated documents can be obtained at: [litmuspartnership.co.uk](http://www.litmuspartnership.co.uk/project/north_durham_academy_and_consett_academy) The closing date for receipt of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is 6.1.2017 (12:00). Tenderers are required to ensure that documents are obtained and returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to by the above closing date and time. Documents in respect of economic / financial standing (where indicated in the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire) shall be returned to The Litmus Partnership Limited, by email to by the above closing date and time. It will be the Tenderer's responsibility to obtain any necessary documents in order to submit a response by the closing date and time. The contracting authority reserves the right not to award any or part of the contract which is the subject of this OJEU notice and reserves the right to terminate the procurement process at any time. The contracting authority will not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in tendering for this contract opportunity. The contracting authority will consider variant bids, evaluating them (so far as the variant or the evaluation of the variant is in the opinion of the contracting authority practicable) on the same basis as a conforming bid, but shall not be obliged to accept any such bid in preference to a conforming bid even if the variant bid scores more highly. No variant will be considered unless the bidder simultaneously submits a conforming bid. Read full description ## CPV classification Office, school and office equipment cleaning services Source Contracts Finder (UK) [View official notice](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/5c3e48e7-bbaf-4b9b-accc-b581b2f6399a) Never miss a tender like this again Get AI summaries, deadline alerts and a bid pipeline for tenders matched to your business. Free to start. 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