The Litmus Partnership: Holy Cross Catholic High School ~ Uniform Tender

UK-Lancashire: Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories.

Scope

Description: successful Supplier will be required to provide School uniform services for :
Holy Cross Catholic High School
Myles Standish Way Chorley Lancashire PR7 3LS
Contract value = £150k (three years)
Contract term 3 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years.
The tender process will be conducted as a single Open Procedure. The process will be as follows:
1.
Suppliers must meet the conditions of participation set out in this Tender Notice for their tender submission to be assessed. A signed Non-Disclosure Agreement must also be submitted.
2.
Clarification questions from suppliers must be submitted by 12:00noon on 4th July 2025.
3.
The deadline for supplier SQ & Tender submissions will be 12:00noon on 18th July 2025.
Late submissions will not be accepted. Any late submission will be rejected unless there is a material technical issue with the LTMS system that prevents this, in which case all suppliers will be provided with additional time to upload their responses.
4. Tender responses will be assessed against the following weighted criteria:
o Service Proposal 35%
o Added Value 7%
o mobilisation and implementation 9%
o Service Management 14%
o Sustainability and quality 26%
o Finance 9%
All sub-criteria and the full evaluation methodology is available in the Evaluation Methodology document available on LTMS [this would include the full marking matrix we use and the table provided in the Evaluation section of this guide].
The contracting authority will seek clarifications from suppliers during the assessment process where information is unclear, contains obvious errors, false statements, abnormal offers or where items are missing which are referred to in the question responses. However, if information requested is simply not provided, no additional opportunity will be given to suppliers to provide it and this will be reflected in scores awarded.
5. The highest scored bid will be awarded the contract.
6. Presentations will not be required but samples of each item of clothing will be required in order to assess for quality and compliance with the requirement.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:
https://litmustms.co.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Lancashire:-Clothing%2C-footwear%2C-luggage-articles-and-accessories./49CW7U9H32

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/49CW7U9H32

Total value (estimated):

GBP 250,000 excluding VAT GBP 250,000 including VAT

Description

Contract dates (estimated)
01/11/2025 to 31/10/2031
CPV Classifications:
18000000 - Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories.
   
Contract can be extended:
No

Extension Date:


Delivery regions:
UKD4 Lancashire

Award criteria:
Quality criterion - Name: Service Proposal / Weighting: 35
Quality criterion - Name: Added Value / Weighting: 7
Quality criterion - Name: Mobilisation & Implementation / Weighting: 9
Quality criterion - Name: Service Management / Weighting: 14
Quality criterion - Name: Suistanability & Qualiity / Weighting: 26
Quality criterion - Name: Finance / Weighting: 9


   

Submission

Enquiry deadline: 18/07/2025 Time: 12:00Tender submission deadline: 18/07/2025 Time: 12:00
Submission address and any special instructions: https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/49CW7U9H32
An electronic auction will be used: No
Languages that may be used for submission: English, Award decision date (estimated): 15/09/2025

Procedure

Procedure type: Open procedure

Contracting authority

       Holy Cross Catholic High School, PCVT-6919-LZLP
       Myles Standish Way, Chorley, Lancashire, PR7 3LS, United Kingdom
       Email: tenders@litmuspartnership.co.uk
       Address of the buyer profile: https://www.holycross.lancs.sch.uk/

Organisation type: REGIONAL_AUTHORITY
Devolved regulations that apply: None