Education Catering Services DPS
A compliant, DfE-approved Dynamic Purchasing System.
As a school leader, you face the challenge of balancing budget constraints with providing nutricious meals for your students and staff.
Education Buying's compliant solution offers you a choice of local, trusted, and socially responsible suppliers, ensuring quality without compromise.
With our guidance, you can avoid procurement pitfalls. Let's transform your school's catering with ease.
It's our mission to save your school money make your life easier
Are you looking for a streamlined and regulation-compliant method of procuring catering services for your school?
This is a PCR15-compliant way to access the market via an easy Further Competition process for a fully managed, outsourced catering service.
- Pre-vetted suppliers ensure a faster award process.
- It is specifically for school catering services with the flexibility to respond to changes in the market.
- It has been split into geographical areas (Lots) so that national and local suppliers can offer their services.
Benefits of our Catering DPS
Support on hand
Simple to use
Social value
Start making use of the benefits now:
Catering Suppliers
Our current suppliers on the Catering DPS are below.
If you don't see a supplier that you would like to use, you can request they join.
- Accent Catering Services Ltd
- Aspens Services Ltd
- BD Group
- Caterlink Ltd
- Churchill Contract Services
- City Catering
- Cityserve
- Compass Group UK
- Derbyshire County Council
- Dolce Ltd
- Educaterers Ltd
- Harrison Catering Service Ltd
- Hutchison Catering Services Ltd
- Innovative Services
- ISS Mediclean Limited T/A ISS Facility
- JPL Catering
- Juniper Pursuits Limited
- Kirklees Council
- Mellors Catering Services
- Miquill Catering
- Nottingham Catering
- Oldham Council
- Orian Solutions
- Pabulum Ltd
- Relish School Food
- Salford City Council – Citywide Services
- Sefton Council
- Servest Group Limited
- Shires Services
- Sodexo Limited
- Stir Food Ltd
- Taylor Shaw
- The Pantry (UK) Limited
- The School Lunch Company
- Totally Local Company
- Trafford Catering Services as part of Trafford Council
- Vertas Group Limited
- Wilson Jones Catering Ltd
Further Competition Timeline
Education Buying can provide free help to make your Catering tender a stress-free experience. Click through to see the different stages of the process.
Stage 1 of 6
- Register with Education buying.
- Download documents from the portal.
- Draft tender documents.
Timing: Approximately 2 weeks
Free support from Education Buying:
- Admit suppliers onto the DPS (following evaluation).
- Confirm school’s registration with Education Buying, including welcome call.
- Issue DPS documents to school.
- Receive and ‘sense-check’ completed tender documents from school.
Stage 2 of 6
- Publish tender
Timing: 1 day
Free support from Education Buying:
- Publish tender using the e-procurement portal, Delta eSourcing.
- Monitor tender (for example, questions from suppliers and publication of responses from the school).
Stage 3 of 6
- Market prepares responses and submits via Delta eSourcing.
Timing: Minimum of 15 days
Stage 4 of 6
- Tender closes.
- Begin evaluation.
Timing: Around 2 weeks
Free support from Education Buying:
- Collate tender responses and send to school.
- Receive scores from school to confirm the top-ranked supplier.
Stage 5 of 6
- Outcome announced to all suppliers.
- Contract drafted and awarded.
Timing: Around 2 weeks
Free support from Education Buying:
- Receive feedback letters from school and send to suppliers.
Stage 6 of 6
- Contract commences.
- Ongoing contract management.
Timing: Contract duration
Do you need more help?
Navigating complex procurement requires expertise, experience, and a deep understanding of the education sector’s unique challenges.
Our expert team is here to ensure that your school’s tender processes are compliant and optimised for the best outcomes.
Let us handle the complexities while you focus on what truly matters – providing an exceptional education.
Victoria Lawson
As a former education professional, Victoria understands the challenges schools face. She has a passion for helping MATs and schools achieve their goals of cost savings and compliance.
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