01 Procurement
Tender overview
- Buyer
- St James' Catholic High School
- Status
- Complete
- Procurement method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Category
- services
- CPV classification
- Not supplied
- Tender period
- Not supplied — Not supplied
Description
St James Catholic Secondary School and Blessed Dominic Catholic Primary School are successful schools that share the same site in Barnet, London. The Schools are jointly tendering their cleaning services with a contract start date of 1st August 2026. The initial term will run for three years, ending on 31st July 2029, with a requirement for termly and annual reviews and a break clause to support both parties should the relationship not prosper. There will be an option to extend for up to two further years (1+1) by mutual agreement, based on qualitative and financial performance. The current contract for both schools is with Purgo and is part of an over-arching FM contract. The Schools are seeking a professional cleaning contractor who can consistently deliver high cleaning standards across all areas of the school, with robust staffing and supervision arrangements, clear KPIs and performance monitoring, innovative approaches to sustainability, efficiency and continuous improvement and proactive support to the School throughout the contract. The projected turnover for the three-year contract is expected to be circa £800,000 The School is running this procurement as a Competitive Flexible, Two Stage, Open Tender Process. To declare your interest in the tender and download contract documents (available free of charge), please register on https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cohesionconsulting/aspx/Home. Once registered, please declare interest in the opportunity to access and download the full document set. In short, the Schools need to be convinced that bidders can deliver their commitments in full, achieve high standards and implement service enhancements as promised. If the Schools are not convinced of this, it reserves the right to consider an insourced solution or make no award. Any investment proposals must align with DfE guidelines.
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02 Awards and contracts
Published award records
St James and Blessed Dominic Cleaning Tender
- Awarded
- 28 April 2026
- Award value
- £862,846
- Suppliers
- 1
- Signed contract
- 29 June 2026
03 Organisations
Buyers, suppliers and other parties
St James' Catholic High School
Great Strand, London, UKI71, NW9 5PE, United Kingdom
GB-UKPRN 101364Birkin Cleaning Services Ltd
11 Magnet Road, West Thurrock, Grays, UKH32, RM20 4DR, United Kingdom
Companies House 01057375 →Cohesion Consulting Ltd
16 Mount Pleasant, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UKJ46, TN1 1QU, United Kingdom
Companies House 13682273 →Companies House links appear only for explicit GB-COH identifiers. BritDB does not create company links from a similar name or address.
04 Provenance
Source for this process
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