St Angela's Ursuline School ~ Cleaning Tender

The successful Supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for St Angela’s Ursuline School.

St Angela’s is a Roman Catholic School built in 1862 by the sisters of the Ursuline order, inspired by the vision of their founder and our namesake. The school is a voluntary-aided secondary school for girls (11-16) in the London Borough of Newham with a mixed sixth form centre predominantly of girls of 400 students.

St Angela's is a focused, hardworking and friendly Catholic school, aiming to provide every opportunity for our students to achieve their very best and to leave our school confident and independent young women, well equipped for higher education and life beyond.

The Tender

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 our school. The high-quality service levels proposed, should maintain excellent standards throughout, resulting in a pleasant environment for both the pupils and staff at all schools.

The basis and rationale that the Client requires the successful contractor to operate to at all times, is being able to provide a School that is 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 from 1st April 2023 until 31st July 2026 with an option to extend for up to a further 2 years at the discretion of the client. The contract will be fixed price in nature, with the Contractor invoicing the Client for one-twelfth of the annual cost on a monthly basis.

It should be noted that the successful contractor will be expected to bring to the contract: innovation; new equipment; and cleaning methods, with BICSc standards being achieved, as a minimum, thus ensuring that the highest levels of cleanliness are maintained in all areas at all times and also ensuring that the productivity of the cleaning operatives is enhanced moving forward into the new contract term.

Contract value:

The annual contract value is circa £136,200

The value of the new contract is circa £681,000(Annual contract value multiplied by the maximum 5-year term of the contract)

Other notes:

•Please be advised that this contract will be let on a 3 + maximum of 2 years basis.

•Please be advised that there are no current cleaning staff in the Local Government Pension Scheme

•Please be advised that the cleaning service is currently contracted to High Spec Services

•Please be advised that the School has a minimum requirement for a contractor’s employers liability/ public liability and professional indemnity insurance of £10m

•The minimum annual turnover that your company must have achieved to be considered for this opportunity is £1m

•Please note that the school reserves the right not to appoint as a result of this process.