18 live Food Supplies tenders across the UK. Catering, food supply and hospitality contracts.
Updated 1 October 2026
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Food supply and wholesale distribution, school meals catering, hospital patient and retail catering, civic and events catering, vending, and catering equipment supply and maintenance. School meals is the highest-volume strand, governed by nutritional standards and free school meal entitlement.
CPV codes: CPV 15000 for food, beverages and related products, 55300 for restaurant and food-serving services, 55520 for catering services, and 55523 for catering for other enterprises or institutions.
Councils and multi-academy trusts for school meals, NHS trusts for patient and staff catering, universities for campus catering and residences, and care providers. Regional food purchasing consortia aggregate demand for smaller buyers, particularly across school clusters.
Right now the most active buyers publishing in this category on Daily Tenders are Dumfries and Galloway Council, East Lothian Council, Learning Community Trust, London Borough of Enfield, Kirklees College and Scotland Excel.
Food safety management to HACCP, environmental health rating, BRCGS certification for manufacture and distribution, Soil Association Food for Life accreditation where buyers pursue it, and Red Tractor or equivalent provenance assurance. School catering must meet the School Food Standards; hospital catering is assessed against national standards for healthcare food.
Food supply typically runs through regional consortium frameworks with a lotted structure — chilled, frozen, ambient, bakery, produce — so specialist suppliers bid only their lots. Catering services contracts are longer, three to five years, and often include capital investment in kitchen facilities.
Yes, especially where tenders are lotted by product type or geography. Buyers face growing pressure to support local supply chains and shorten food miles, and social value scoring often rewards local sourcing explicitly.
School food must comply with the School Food Standards. Hospital catering is measured against national healthcare food standards. Both are usually pass/fail compliance rather than scored quality, so demonstrating them is a threshold, not a differentiator.
Published contract award notices from the last two years: who won, for how much, and the official notice. Across 29 awards with a published value, the typical contract was £300k, and half fell between £113k and £1.6m.
78 awards for food supplies in the last two years. Subscribers see what comparable contracts went for on every tender they open.
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