008809 - Schools Biometric EPOS & Nutritional Analysis Solution

Organisation

Newcastle City Council

Newcastle City Council (NCC) has a requirement for an Electronic Catering Management and Payment System. The system must incorporate facilities to include the following: • Electronic Point Of Sale (EPOS) solution to ensure transaction times are maximised. • Provide interface with school systems (for example SIMS / Scholar Pack) to allow for appropriate information to be used on the till systems i.e. dietary requirements, religious requirements, and allergen information. • Provide multiple options for payment at the point of sale, including but not limited to, fingerprint biometric, pin pad, contactless payment. • Meal management system including suite of reports that can be individualised by school. • Provide appropriate hardware to facilitate point of sale transactions as well as maintenance/ servicing. This should be, but not limited to the till console with touchscreen functionality, customer display, payment solutions, i.e. fingerprint biometric, Pin Pads, contactless card machine.

Contract period: 31 May 2025 → 31 May 2028

Newcastle City Council (NCC) has a requirement for a Nutritional Analysis and Menu Management software solution. The solution must incorporate facilities to include the following: • Allergen management to highlight the 15 common allergens recognised in law. It is essential that the system can be upgraded / updated to incorporate any future changes in the law or additional allergens added to the list. • Nutritional analysis to allow NCC to comply with the school food standards and provide accurate information to parents / carers / schools for cultural / religious diets, diabetes (carbohydrates), Nutritional content and allergen information. • The system must be able to link to external manufacturer software platforms to incorporate information provided from them for example ERODUS. • Accurate recipe details and costings / menu cycle costings. • Recipe details and imagery that can be used by kitchen teams to maintain consistency and appropriate portion sizes.

Contract period: 31 May 2025 → 31 May 2028

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£460.2m

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Application Deadline

30 April 2025

Closed

Estimated Value

£250,000

WAC Reference

WAC-12337

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