The School require their catering service contractor to provide a very high quality food offer within a meal cost pricing structure for boarding students and competitive tariff for the main school. The following table details the meal times, days and weeks required.

Service provided Times Days Weeks

Breakfast 7:30 — 8:00 5 39

Break 10:35 — 11:05 5 39

Lunch 12:50 — 13:40 5 39

Evening Meal 17:50 — 18:15 4 39

In addition, there is a requirement for hospitality, sporting events and client issues.

The turnover for the current catering service is circa 400 000 GBP.

The Boarding School operates Sunday evening through to Friday PM and students receive 3 meals and 2 snacks per day.

For the contractor to:

Demonstrate how they will maintain the current very high standard of food quality and service.

To ensure the continued commitment to healthy eating, vegetarian cuisine, fair trade and local sourcing. This must include the quality, variety, presentation and merchandising of the food and continued support of the existing catering team.

Maintain and develop the ‘restaurant culture’ by ensuring students are able to eat a range of different foods, making healthy and informed choices, eating as a social activity, open to trying new foods etc. To work with the School to provide an environment to support the change.

Provide high quality, reasonably priced catering for training events and meetings held on each site.

To enter into an agreement that rewards The Contractor for continual improvements in their financial and operational performance as well as passing on any financial benefits to the School over and above any agreed guarantees.