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Connect Education Trust Catering Tender 2025

Procurement for Schools Ltd

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Key details

Contracting authority
Region
LONDON
Contract value
£5,000,000ex VAT
Submissions closed
30 October 2025
Published
14 January 2026

Procurement

Contract period
30 March 2026 - 29 March 2031
5 years
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
CPV classifications
  • 55524000 School catering services

What happened

Procurement for Schools Ltd awarded this contract to THE PANTRY (UK) LIMITED worth £5,770,000 on 26 Nov 2025. The contract runs until 29 Mar 2031.

Description

The Connect Education Trust require a caterer to provide every pupil, member of staff and guests at the Trust who so requires a nutritionally balanced hot meal at lunchtime that meets the food standards as laid out by 2014 No. 1603 The Education (The Requirement for Academy Food Regulations (England) 2014.

There are 6 academies that will require your catering service, 5 academies have kitchens with 1 being a delivered-in service from a local HUB academy within the Trust.

Please contact our procurement consultant Mr. Mike Newell to request the tender pack at [email protected]

Additional information: Please contact our procurement consultant Mr. Mike Newell to request access to the tender pack at [email protected]

Awarded supplier

Supplier
THE PANTRY (UK) LIMITED
Companies House: 09100034
Award value
£5,770,000
Award date
26 November 2025

Contact

Address
Connect Education Trust Central Office, Chesterfield Primary School, London, EN3 6BG
Contact name
Mr. Mike Newell

Identifiers

Buyer reference
Connect_Catering_2025
Notice ID
8c68854f-b5d0-4270-94c8-db412e4a831e-879196
OCID
ocds-b5fd17-b4bd4bb8-4a9f-4140-a00a-c9b5755162e6

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