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St Augustine Academy ~ Cleaning Tender

St Augustine Academy ~ Part of Woodard Academies Trust · Contract award notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

The successful Supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for the St Augustine Academy. The current contract value is equivalent to £200k per annum. St Augustine Academy is a large state school of currently 699 secondary school pupils, and is part of the Woodard Academies Trust. The Trust has an impressive heritage as part of the Woodard family of schools, created by founder Nathaniel Woodard in 1848 with the aim of providing an education based on Christian values and a belief in nurturing and enriching each individual child. This is an exciting time for the Trust who have recently launched an ambitious new five-year strategy to continue to drive up standards, nurture and educate our children into successful adults, develop, and recruit the best teachers, work collaboratively in our local area, and grow our Trust in geographical clusters. The school has a mixture of buildings some of which are very modern and some legacy buildings across the campus – some areas of which are quite challenging to clean. The school currently has an in-house cleaning team and has additional coverage of site team operators (not transferring) who carry out a mixture of reactive and prescribed tasks. Current deployment of cleaners has an early shift and a post school shift for the main cleaning effort which makes the service difficult to supervise. Over time, the school stakeholders can see the potential benefit in moving towards post school cleaning supported by effective school day support – using this methodology, it should be easier to audit and manage output. The ITT process will look to suppliers to identify the optimal use of current hours and exacting evening cleaning standards and supervision. Currently some staff are working split shifts pre and post school, which is not necessarily seen by school stakeholders as being fully efficient. Please see PSQ document for more information.

Awarded to

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Kent Gurkha Company Ltd

Matched by number
Published award value
£600k
Awarded
4 Jun 2026
Award ID
1
Status
pending
Identifier
GB-COH 05797901
Location
Maidstone, UKJ45, ME14 1BQ, United Kingdom

Classification

No classification was supplied.

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

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-0646c6
Status
complete
Procurement Method
open
Procurement Method Details
Competitive flexible procedure

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
complete

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Name
St Augustine Academy ~ Part of Woodard Academies Trust
Id
GB-PPON-PGDR-8727-WJHY

Identifier

Scheme
GB-PPON
Id
PGDR-8727-WJHY

Address

Street Address
St Augustine Academy, Oakwood Road, Maidstone
Locality
Kent
Postal Code
ME16 8AE
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKJ45

Contact

Telephone
01276 673896

Roles

buyer

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Id
publicAuthoritySubCentralGovernment
Description
Public authority - sub-central government
Organisation 2
Name
Kent Gurkha Company Ltd
Id
GB-COH-05797901

Identifier

Scheme
GB-COH
Id
05797901

Address

Street Address
7 Clarendon Place, King Street
Locality
Maidstone
Postal Code
ME14 1BQ
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Region
UKJ45

Contact

Name
Howard Allen
Telephone
01276 673896

Roles

supplier

Details

Scale
sme
Vcse
No
Public Service Mission Organization
No
Sheltered Workshop
No

Award information

Award 1
Id
1
Status
pending
Date
5 Jun 2026, 00:00
Main Procurement Category
services
Above Threshold
Yes
Has Renewal
Yes
Assessment Summaries Date Sent
5 Jun 2026, 00:00

Items

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Scheme
CPV
Id
90919300
Description
School cleaning services

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKJ4
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Value

Including VAT
600,000
Currency
GBP

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-COH-05797901
Name
Kent Gurkha Company Ltd

Standstill Period

Ends
14 Jul 2026, 23:59

Contract period

Starts
1 Aug 2026, 00:00
Ends
31 Jul 2029, 23:59
Max Extent Date
31 Jul 2031, 23:59

Renewal

Description
1+!

Related lots

1

Documents

Entry 1
Id
062318-2026
Document Type
awardNotice
Notice Type
UK6
Description
Contract award notice on Find a Tender
Published
2 Jul 2026, 14:29
Format
text/html

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
1
Type
futureSignatureDate
Due
14 Jul 2026, 23:59
Status
scheduled

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Kent · UKJ45 · ME16 8AE · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

2 published notice versions reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

2 VERSIONS
  1. 009916-2026Tender notice on Find a Tender ·
  2. 062318-2026Contract award notice on Find a Tender ·