Catering Tenders

Catering and Hospitality Tenders in the UK

Tsaks Consulting are experts at writing winning catering and hospitality bids and tenders for companies across the United Kingdom. We have helped companies in the catering and hospitality industry win tenders in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. This extends to and includes all major cities, including London, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Belfast.

We’ve helped clients win public sector tenders as well as private sector tenders and have an understanding of the qualitative and pricing components of catering and hospitality industry contracts.

Writing winning catering and hospitality tenders to the public sector

When preparing a tender to provide catering services to the public sector in the UK, there are certain requirements you must abide by. Catering service suppliers must adhere to guidelines set out by the UK Government, ensuring food is fresh, safe, and nutritious.

Key points to consider when submitting catering and hospitality services bids to the UK Government include:

• Meals must be delivered with at least one or more servings of salad each day
• There must be three differing fruit varieties, and three vegetable varieties every week.
• Encouraging water over sugary drinks and any other drink
• Fruit juice limitations to 150ml per day
• Drinks with sugar, or added sugar, should have a sugar content no greater than 5%
• Commitment to wholegrain foods over refined carbohydrates
• Limit portions of deep-fried, breadcrumb-battered, or batter-coated food to no more than twice a week
• Foods containing pastry should be limited to two servings per week.

The challenges you encounter when writing catering and hospitality sector bids

Our writers will help you write a bid or proposal that positions your business for success. We will work with you to read between the lines of the contract and understand any underlying issues that need to be addressed. We will quickly gain an understanding of your business and what differentiates you in the market – as well as identify key win themes which need to be interwoven through your bid to ensure consistent messaging.

We will work with you to ensure you showcase your company’s abilities, demonstrating that your services go above and beyond the requirements of the tender and will deliver a consistent quality of service over the long term. Furthermore, we will ensure you detail and evidence your experience, write concisely to maximise the wordcount, and provide a structured and comprehensive response to each question.

This results in higher evaluation scores, and a winning chance at your next catering tender in the UK.

Some catering tender challenges in the UK include:

The Menu
You need to prove that you can fulfil your catering service with fresh, healthy, nutritious, high-quality food throughout the lifecycle of the contract. You will need to have competitive prices while also providing staff with fair wages. Tsaks Consulting can assist you in displaying your ability to fulfil these services by thorough planning and the presentation of items such as menu plans.

Your supply network
When considering your catering tender application, the evaluator will be looking to see if your food and drink will be grown, produced, and packaged efficiently and ethically, in an environmentally friendly manner.

Tsaks consulting can assist you in proving your best supply chain practices, demonstrating your close collaboration with all parties involved in the supply chain process of your service delivery, and all equipment and machinery involved.

Food safety

For any hospitality industry bid or tender, food safety is critical. You will need to provide a comprehensive food management and safety plan, ensure all of your personnel have the appropriate food safety qualifications and certifications, and make sure you have a food safety training program in place. If you have premises, you will need to demonstrate the premises comply with any relevant food safety regulations.

A fit-out plan

When you are bidding to operate in a designated establishment, you may be required to provide a fit-out plan. This gives you the opportunity to present your vision for the project. You should detail your proposed fitout, as well as the total budget / expenditure you have allocated to the project. Your fit-out should be consistent with your proposed menu and overall branding and design.

Common types of catering and hospitality tenders

There are many different types of hospitality and catering tenders across the UK in different industries. For example, there are contract opportunities for the provision of catering services to schools, hospitals and other public buildings and establishments. These are now governed by the 2014 Plan for Public Procurement of Food which was designed to focus food purchasing on healthy food from local suppliers.

The different types of tenders and bids include:

Tenders for fresh produce
Tenders for fresh produced are one of the most common tenders from the NHS in major cities and local councils in the UK. They request services for fruit and vegetables, meat, and drinks.

Tenders for school catering
Tenders for school catering in the UK are frequently released, with new tenders being released on a weekly basis. Schools in the UK are highly dependent on these tenders, as the supply fresh, healthy, nutritious food and drinks are a vital part of a school’s operation.

Catering Equipment supply

We have assisted clients to write bids for the supply of catering equipment. This is generally on a large scale and can include catering and hospitality equipment to large government departments such as the Department of Defence.

Event Services / Entertainment

We assist event management companies, as well as hospitality services providers to write winning bids for event services contracts. There are often multi-faceted and can range from event management to the provision of security and other services for large events.

Laundry Services

We have assisted clients to complete laundry tenders as well as proposals for the provision of hotel and accommodation management services.

Catering and Hospitality bid writing support

Tsaks Consulting’s team of expert catering bid writers in the UK keep up to date with industry trends and government requirements related to hospitality and catering services in the UK.

With our experience writing winning tenders in the United Kingdom, we can offer you the highest chance of success of winning that next tender. We help clients across all of the United Kingdom including all major cities such as London, Glasgow, Leeds and Birmingham.