Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services contracts in South East England
2 live and 23 total public-sector opportunities matched to CPV 55000000 in South East England.
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Procuring hotel, restaurant and retail trade services in South East England
This page tracks public-sector demand for hotel, restaurant and retail trade services (CPV 55000000) published by contracting authorities in South East England. Tendarix has indexed 23 matching contracts here, 2 of which are open for bids right now.
Division 55 covers hotel, restaurant and catering services — school and hospital meals, hospitality for events, canteen operation and residential accommodation services. Food as goods is division 15; this division is the service of feeding people.
The South East is a high-volume, polycentric market: county councils (Kent, Hampshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, East and West Sussex) run large highways, care and schools programmes, alongside dense district-council coverage, major universities (Oxford, Southampton), big NHS trusts and defence establishments around Portsmouth and Aldershot. County-run frameworks and shared procurement units (e.g. Hampshire's shared services) route significant spend.
Notices are aggregated from Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, the devolved-nation portals and 400+ council procurement sites, then summarised in plain English. Suppliers working in South East England use the chart below to gauge how active this category is month-to-month, and the list to find live opportunities to bid on.
Procurement activity over the last 12 months
4 contracts worth £7.8m in disclosed value were published for Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services in South East England in the last year. Bars show monthly contract volume; the line tracks known award value.
Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services opportunities in South East England
Catering Services for the OPCC & HIWFRA
£0kCatering at The Birches
£1000kBönningstedt Promenade Forecourt
£71kCatering Services
£6765kFRAMEWORK FOR THE SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF FROZEN AND GROCERY PRODUCTS
£37000kThe Norton Knatchbull School
£1250kThe Circle Trust - Catering Tender
£8140kProvision of Catering Facilities at City of Portsmouth College
£3260kCambrian Learning Trust - Catering and Cleaning Services
£2854k–8223kAcer Trust - Catering Services (2024)
£1281k–2629kHampshire Schools Cluster 6 - Catering Services Tender
PP-10142 Oxley Park Academy Trust Catering
£1135kTenterden Schools Trust - Catering Services
£6200kContract for the Operation of the Winchester City Street Market
£645kLe Shuttle Catering Tender
£570kHoliday Activity and Food Schemes
The Provison of a Nursery Meals Service
£105kCatering Contract for 4 Special Schools in Hampshire
£140kHosted Events and Conferencing Services (NIHR)
£800kCatering Services for Four Extra Care Schemes
Frequently asked questions
How many Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services tenders are live in South East England?
There are 2 live Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services opportunities in South East England right now, out of 23 indexed in total. This page updates daily as buyers publish new notices.
Who buys Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services in South East England?
The most active buyers in South East England for this category on Tendarix include Housing Solutions, HAMPSHIRE AND ISLE OF WIGHT CONSTABULARY, University of Southampton. Schools and multi-academy trusts (catering contracts, typically 3–5 years), councils (school meals frameworks, civic catering), NHS trusts (patient dining, retail catering), universities and the MoD are consistent buyers.
What does CPV code 55000000 cover?
Division 55 covers hotel, restaurant and catering services — school and hospital meals, hospitality for events, canteen operation and residential accommodation services. Food as goods is division 15; this division is the service of feeding people.
How do I win Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services contracts in South East England?
School catering is won on food quality within a hard price-per-meal envelope: sample menus costed against school food standards, take-up growth plans and investment offers (kitchen equipment, servery refurbishment) decide evaluations. Show allergen management maturity and real staff-transfer (TUPE) experience — mismanaging either is the classic new-entrant failure buyers screen for. The counties operate their own well-organised e-sourcing portals (Kent Business Portal, In-Tend and ProContract instances) — register on each county you can serve, because sub-threshold work is invited through them without appearing on national portals. County DPS lists for transport, care and construction admit new suppliers on a rolling basis.
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