Schools Site Management, Buildings Maintenance and Cleaning Services

Descriptions

The QUEST Trust is a unique faith trust comprising of five schools - one senior 16 to 19, four primary and one nursery. The successful supplier(s) will be required to provide site management services (including buildings maintenance) and / or school cleaning services across the sites of the Trust. The QUEST Trust is seeking requests for proposals from suitably qualified and experienced operators to provide and manage the site management teams(SM), planned and preventative maintenance (PPM) and reactive maintenance (RM) and the schools cleaning services (SCS) in accordance with good industry practice. The Trust is looking to appoint a contractor via Lots to manage this import part of its facilities arrangements. TUPE regulations will apply to this contract for the Site Managers and Cleaning Operatives. The successful supplier(s) will be required to demonstrate that they currently hold Admitted Body Status (ABS) to the Local Government Pension Scheme of the Greater Manchester Pension. The Tender documents will be issued as an Open Procedure in two parts - 1. The Supplier Selection Questionnaire (SSQ) and 2. An Invite to Tender (ITT). Both documents will be required to be submitted by the deadline date. The Trust has engaged an external consultant to assist with the management of this process to which all communications must go through. IMPORTANT - the Trust is not bound to award any of the Lots to any bidder if the criteria for the services delivery has not been met during the procurement process. Lot 1 and Lot 2 may be awarded individually to two contractors or awarded to one contractor as combined Lots.