Invitation to Tender for Concession Catering for St Kevins College, Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow

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1. At a glance

2. Scope of Work

Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board ran this procurement for “Invitation to Tender for Concession Catering for St Kevins College, Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow” as an operational contract requiring implementation and sustained service execution. The extracted pack showed qualification-stage material with references to later ITT technical depth; practical activity therefore centred on building, integrating, and operating the specified service stack with compliant reporting and handover obligations where stated. Constituent activities and named work elements in the supplied extracts:

• • 5 Service Operators (Could be Managerial Role also) must have minimum of 1 years’ experience each working in food provision/preparation Non-binding monetary references in the source were treated as context only and were not used as qualification thresholds.

3. Background & buyer context

The buyer context reflected a formal Irish public-procurement route, with pre-qualification used to control entry into the tender stage.

• [SCHOOL MEAL STATE FUNDING INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES (1).pdf] BOOCDCM • Oifig Chill Dara
• SCHOOL MEAL STATE FUNDING INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES
• The non-statutory School Meals Local Projects Scheme provides funding directly from the Department of Social
• their own school meals projects. Pipers Hill are part of this scheme. They have applied for funding for this

4. Eligibility & selection criteria

• Turnover requirement — — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.
• Insurance — — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.; I confirm that we have the following insurances in place Insurance Type Level in Place Details of Any Excess Expiry Date Employers Liability (€12.7m) € Public Liability (€6; 5m) € Product Liability (€6.5m) € AND
• Certifications — not specified for this tender
• Past experience — not specified for this tender
• Personnel — not specified for this tender
• Geographic / facility constraints — not specified for this tender Additional binding lines surfaced in the deterministic extract:
• — use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.
• I confirm that we have the following insurances in place Insurance Type Level in Place Details of Any Excess Expiry Date Employers Liability (€12.7m) € Public Liability (€6
• 5m) € Product Liability (€6.5m) € AND

5. Award criteria & scoring

6. Submission requirements

• Method statement / response document (template/page limits) — not specified in extract.
• CVs (page count, named roles) — not specified in extract.
• Pricing schedule (format/template) — not specified in extract.
• Case studies (number/value range) — client references/comparable project evidence was referenced.
• Declarations (ESPD/Bona Fides/Tax/COI) — not specified in extract.
• Mandatory site visit — not specified in extract.
• Submission portal and formatting — eTenders portal and PDF electronic copies were referenced. Submission-related source lines:
• [SCHOOL MEAL STATE FUNDING INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES (1).pdf] BOOCDCM • Oifig Chill Dara
• [SCHOOL MEAL STATE FUNDING INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES (1).pdf] , and prepared

7. Key dates & process

8. Contract terms that matter

Contract duration in the extract: 2 years. Payment cycle, SLA/KPI schedule, and penalty regime were not fully disclosed in the snippets unless listed below.

• VERIFIED PHRASES (deterministic regex extract from the documents — treat as authoritative for numerical claims)
• re parts of the contract may be performed that are in force 7 days prior to the deadline for receipt of Te
• their own school meals projects. Pipers Hill are part of this scheme. They have applied for funding for this
• Funding under the School Meals Local Projects Scheme is based on a rate of payment per meal, per child, per day.
• The current rates of payment effective from 1 January 2023 are:
• [Tender Pack School Catering St Kevins 2025.zip] [ZIP containing 5 files]

9. Risks, red flags & unusuals

• Qualification gate: the deterministic extract included a turnover threshold line (— use these verbatim for insurance / turnover. If a category (insurance, turnover) has no entry here, treat it as 'not specified' for THIS tender.), which can materially narrow bidder pool composition.
• The two-step process (PQQ then ITT) shifted effort to compliance evidence early, with competitive scoring detail potentially deferred.

10. SME fit assessment

This competition looked most accessible to firms with established public-sector tender capability, documented financial capacity, and direct operational experience in the relevant service category.

• Credible bidder profile — mid-sized to large specialist with formal QA/compliance process.
• Consortium / sub-contracting — not clearly specified in extract.
• Indicative bid-prep effort — 6 to 12 working days for evidence collation, form completion, and review cycles at PQQ level.
• Pwin signal — strongest for bidders with reusable qualification artefacts, comparable references, and low-friction mobilisation capability.

11. Where to dig deeper

• Source RFT/PQQ filenames: www
• • Minimum of ONE Managerial staff (unit manager and/or daily leader) must have min 2 years’ experience
• They must also have a minimum Level III as a legal requirement per FSAI Training Guidelines (www
• • 5 Service Operators (Could be Managerial Role also) must have minimum of 1 years’ experience each working in food provision/preparation

Regulations and standards cited

• 4 File reference number attributed by the contracting authority or contracting entity (if applicable)(3)

Scale / volume phrases

• for the contract open for acceptance by you for a period of 12 months from the date of deadline for submissio
• re parts of the contract may be performed that are in force 7 days prior to the deadline for receipt of Te

TENDER DOCUMENTS [SCHOOL MEAL STATE FUNDING INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES (1).pdf, SCHOOL MEAL STATE FUNDING INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES (1).pdf.

• eTenders CFT / notice reference: not specified in extract.
• Clarification contact / portal: [email protected].
• Key attachments to prioritise: Appendix/Schedule documents referenced in the source pack.