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Catering Services

HOUSING 21 · award, contract

Tender information last checkedLast checked 5 Oct 2026, 01:03.

Opportunity overview

Awarded via a competition on CCS Facilities Management and Workplace Services DPS. Please refer to F01: Prior information notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005376-2025/Private?origin=Dashboard Facilities Management and Workplace Services DPS - CCS. DPS filters applied to support primary requirement (15/04/2025): Residential Catering Services, Hackney and Newham, Haringey and Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Tower Hamlets, Camden and City of London, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham, Wandsworth, Westminster, Barking & Dagenham and Havering, Bexley and Greenwich, Enfield, Redbridge and Waltham Forest, Bromley, Croydon, Merton, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton, Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Harrow and Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames, West Sussex (North East), West Sussex (South West)

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

Contract value
£9.6m
Awarded
Not supplied
Contract signed
16 Dec 2025
Award ID
009437-2026-1
Status
active
Identifier
GB-COH 02114954
Location
West Midlands, UK, United Kingdom

Classification

  • CPV55520000 — Catering services

Lots

  • Contract Objective i. To provide a fully managed catering service, including attracting and retaining the best, trained professionals. ii. To deliver a quality Bistro style, or equivalent in etiquette of service and delivery manner, to residents. iii. To offer high quality fresh food and beverage choices. iv. To achieve the highest standards in food quality choices, to promote residents' well-being, food options and experience. This includes fresh food and beverages that are prepared, presented, and served to residents in an attractive manner, which offers customers a choice, with particular attention paid to appearance, taste, texture, portion sizes, temperature, and nutritional value. v. To enhance an excellent catering service reputation with customers, in view of expanding a catering offering to the surrounding community. vi. To create a welcoming and relaxed 'bistro ambience' environment producing food of the highest standards that not only attracts residents and their visitors but becomes a restaurant of choice. vii. To comply with all requirements and monitoring work as set out in the Safer Food Better Business for Caterers (Food Standards Agency): Safer food, better business for caterers | Food Standards Agency.Value not stated

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
ocds-h6vhtk-04e2af
Status
complete
Main Procurement Category
services
Procurement Method
limited
Procurement Method Details
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Why this procedure was chosen
Competition via CCS - Facilities Management and Workplace Services DPS

Legal basis

Id
32014L0024
Scheme
CELEX

Classification

Scheme
CPV
Id
55520000
Description
Catering services

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Scheme
TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL
Id
D_OUTSIDE_SCOPE
Description
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Description
Contract Objective i. To provide a fully managed catering service, including attracting and retaining the best, trained professionals. ii. To deliver a quality Bistro style, or equivalent in etiquette of service and delivery manner, to residents. iii. To offer high quality fresh food and beverage choices. iv. To achieve the highest standards in food quality choices, to promote residents' well-being, food options and experience. This includes fresh food and beverages that are prepared, presented, and served to residents in an attractive manner, which offers customers a choice, with particular attention paid to appearance, taste, texture, portion sizes, temperature, and nutritional value. v. To enhance an excellent catering service reputation with customers, in view of expanding a catering offering to the surrounding community. vi. To create a welcoming and relaxed 'bistro ambience' environment producing food of the highest standards that not only attracts residents and their visitors but becomes a restaurant of choice. vii. To comply with all requirements and monitoring work as set out in the Safer Food Better Business for Caterers (Food Standards Agency): Safer food, better business for caterers | Food Standards Agency.
Has Options
Yes

Award criteria

Criteria

Criterion 1
Name
Quality
Type
quality
Description
60
Criterion 2
Type
price
Description
40

Options

Description
3 Year initial term Optional Extensions: 2 years + 1 year

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UK

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
HOUSING 21
Id
GB-COH-ocds-h6vhtk-04e2af

Identifier

Legal Name
HOUSING 21
Id
ocds-h6vhtk-04e2af
Scheme
GB-COH

Address

Street Address
Tricorn House
Locality
Birmingham
Region
UK
Postal Code
B168TP
Country Name
United Kingdom

Contact

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
TED_CA_TYPE
Id
BODY_PUBLIC
Description
Body governed by public law
Entry 2
Scheme
COFOG
Id
06
Description
Housing and community amenities
Organisation 2
Name
Compass Contract Services (U.K) Limited
Id
GB-COH-02114954

Identifier

Legal Name
Compass Contract Services (U.K) Limited
Id
02114954
Scheme
GB-COH

Address

Locality
West Midlands
Region
UK
Country Name
United Kingdom

Roles

supplier

Details

Scale
large
Organisation 3
Name
Housing 21
Id
GB-FTS-149872

Identifier

Legal Name
Housing 21

Address

Locality
Birmingham
Postal Code
B16 8TP
Country Name
United Kingdom

Roles

reviewBody

Award information

Award 1
Id
009437-2026-1
Status
active

Related lots

1

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-COH-02114954
Name
Compass Contract Services (U.K) Limited

Contracts and changes

Entry 1
Id
009437-2026-1
Award ID
009437-2026-1
Status
active
Date Signed
16 Dec 2025, 00:00

Value

Amount
9,600,000
Currency
GBP

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Birmingham · UK · B168TP · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UK

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. 009437-2026award, contract ·