UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

NPCAT is a multi academy trust comprising of 37 schools with a mixture of primary, secondary schools and a six form college. The technical standards used as a requirement for this Call Off Contract under the GCloud framework are: multi academy trust mis in Cloud software in the category Schools, education and libraries, deployable to a private cloud, where the supplier is not a reseller, where user support is available by phone and through web chat, where usage metrics are provided through real-time dashboards, where data storage and processing locations include the United Kingdom, where users authenticate with 2-factor authentication, where service managers and administrators authenticate with 2-factor authentication, where security certificates held include ISO/IEC 27001 (service security) and with a discount for educational organisations.

Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust (NPCAT) is a family of 27 schools, a sixth form and a teaching school. The Trust aims for all the schools to have a significant and positive impact on pupils, and the staff devote time, energy and resources to their ongoing progress and development within their parishes and the communities of Teesside and North Yorkshire. NPCAT's is seeking a school meals catering supplier for 25 of the Trust's schools (3 x secondary and 22 x primary) from 1 September 2021, on a 3 year contract plus possible 2 year extension (on a +1yr, + 1yr basis). Contract is divided into Lots: (1) Primary; (2) Secondary and (3) Combined. The estimated annual turnover of the contract is GBP 2.2M per annum, in total across all three Lots. The successful supplier is to provide a healthy, high quality and value for money catering service to all school pupils, staff and a hospitality service as required.