Catering Solutions Management Limited
suppliers of Independent catering consultancy, audit and tender management services

 

Fully managed catering tenders packages and on-going compliance assessments

A thoroughly planned and professionally implemented tendering process is key to a highly successful and cost-effective relationship between an organisation and its catering provider.

Many clients who commission a tender of their services achieve significant financial savings, as the process highlights deficiencies in their former contracts that were possibly the result of ill-matched service requirements or the lack of a sensible catering policy. The wholesale review of the arrangements in place, delivered through the tender project, will establish a viable and relevant new base position.

 

What will the tender achieve?

  • establishes a clearly understood basis for comparing submissions …

  • enhances the basis of the client / contractor relationship …

  • eliminates the opportunity for ‘creative accounting’ …

  • ensures a contract with key performance indicators is in place to self-guard the client …

  • simplifies the overall tendering process …

  • minimises the timescale of the process …

  • releases valuable time for the client organisation to concentrate on their core business with minimal disruption

 

The tender process ...

  • project management of the whole market testing process …

  • detailed analysis of the catering service’s operational elements such as menus, type of service offered, health & safety issues …

  • creation of the invitation to tender document and operational specification …

  • compilation of potential contractor list …

  • pre-qualification process for all contractors invited to tender …

  • drawing up of appropriate contractor agreement …

  • issuing the invitation to tender to contractors …

  • the project consultant will attend site briefing meetings and will manage the shortlisted presentations to the client on site …

  • objective evaluation of all submissions …

  • produce an executive summary of tenders …

  • shortlist recommendations …

  • manage or monitor the commencement of the new contract …