Catering Solutions Management Limited

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 do?

  • establish a clearly understood basis for comparing submissions

  • eliminate the opportunity for ‘creative accounting’

  •  simplify the overall tendering process

  • minimise the timescale of the process
  • release valuable time for the client

The tender process

  •  project management of the market testing process

  • creation of the tender specification and appropriate contract

  • identification and compilation of a suitable bidders list
  •  issuing the invitation-to-tender to bidders

  •  provision of a detailed, objective financial evaluation of all submissions

  • provision of a detailed analysis of the bidders operational rationale such as menus, services offered, health & safety and environmental policies

  •  short-list recommendations

  •  manage or monitor the commencement of the new arrangement