Pre Market Engagement - Provision of Catering Services
Buyer: LIFT SCHOOLS
- Published
- 19 August 2025
- Lots
- 1
- Notice number
- 049940-2025
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-058ac5
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 55524000School catering services
Description
This is a Pre-Market Engagement Exercise for Lift Schools. The purpose of this preliminary market engagement exercise is to inform suppliers in the current market and gain information to inform a potential future procurement. At this stage, any information gathered through this exercise will inform the Trust internal business planning and the subsequent procurement process. For the avoidance of doubt, this is the scoping phase and is not part of a formal procurement process. The current Trust Catering Service is responsible for producing meals per day to children within nursery, primary, special, secondary schools including 6th form provision. Spend annually is currently estimated at £10million. Lift Schools was founded in 2008 (as Academies Enterprise Trust) and we currently have a total of 57 schools (primary, secondary and special) which is increasing to 58 from 1 January 2026 and is an exempt charitable company. Our turnover for the year 2023/24 was £290.7m. Currently the trust spans over 5 regions in England from Isle of Wight to Yorkshire. The trust has DFE approval to increase our number of primary schools in the future and we are in active discussions at this time with a …
Official publications
- FTS · 049940-2025 · 19 August 2025
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