Provision of Supply and Delivery of School Compliant Soluble Hot Chocolate

Description

The soluble compliant school hot chocolate supplied and delivered to all secondary school premises must comply in all respects with the relevant provisions of law, as amended, governing the quality of products for human consumption and labelling as follows -
(i) Food Safety Act 1990
(ii) The Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations 2006
(iii) The General Food Regulations 2004
(iv) The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 as amended
The compliant Regulated specification for the soluble hot chocolate is detailed below-
The hot chocolate must be compliant with the Nutritional Requirements for Food and Drink in Schools (Scotland) Regulations 2020 Schedule 2 Part1 Section 15 (f).
Consumables containing sugar or fat provided by the successful Supplier must comply with the nutritional guidance contained within the Nutritional Requirements for Food and Drink in Schools Regulations (Scotland) 2020 as detailed below:
Lower fat milk drinks containing no more than 0.5g of free sugar per 100ml
No more than 5g of total sugar per 100ml
No more than 1.8g of total fat per 100ml
Please note - It is the Glucose Syrup or Dried Glucose Syrup in the ingredients of the vast majority of Hot Chocolate that would count as added sugar, and thus would contravene the Regulations.

Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts
(Scotland) Regulations 2015.
For SPD Questions 4D.1, 4D1.1, 4D1.2, 4D2, 4D2.1 and 4D2.2; Bidders should hold the relevant certificates for Quality Assurance
Schemes and Environmental Management Standards . If Bidders do not hold the relevant certificates, they will be required to respond to
supporting questions.
Bidders must complete Document Eight – Health and Safety Questionnaire and submit it with the tender submission (Only bidders who
pass the health and safety aspect shall be considered.
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Prompt Payment
The successful Supplier shall, as a condition of being awarded the tender, be required to demonstrate to the council's satisfaction that all funds due to the tenderer's permitted sub-contractors in respect of these works are paid timeously and that as a minimum invoices rendered by subcontractors shall (unless formally disputed by the tenderer) be paid within 30 days of receipt. The successful tenderer shall also impose this condition on its sub-contractors in respect of payments due to any sub-sub-contractors, if any.
Non Collusion
Bidders will be required to complete the Non Collusion certificate.
Insurance Mandate
All successful suppliers will be required to sign an Insurance Mandate, contained in the buyers attachments area within the PCS Tender portal authorising the Council to request copies of insurance documents from the supplier’s insurance provider. If the mandate is not signed and returned the Council reserves the right to request copies of insurance certificates from bidders at any point during the contract period.
Terms and Conditions are located within the attachments area within the PCS Tender portal and are reference Document Two.
Additional information pertaining to this contract notice is contained in the Invitation to Tender Document One.
Bidders must ensure they read all the attachments available in the attachment area in line with this contract notice.
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise.
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 28819. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343
Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/
A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:
Minimum Community Benefits 5 points is required; community benefit points will be triggered once the spend reaches 20,000 GBP.
(SC Ref:793417)

The soluble compliant school hot chocolate supplied and delivered to all secondary school premises must comply in all respects with the relevant provisions of law, as amended, governing the quality of products for human consumption and labelling as follows -
(i) Food Safety Act 1990
(ii) The Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations 2006
(iii) The General Food Regulations 2004
(iv) The Food Information (Scotland) Regulations 2014 as amended
The compliant Regulated specification for the soluble hot chocolate is detailed below -
The hot chocolate must be compliant with the Nutritional Requirements for Food and Drink in Schools (Scotland) Regulations 2020 Schedule 2 Part1 Section 15 (f).
Consumables containing sugar or fat provided by the successful Supplier must comply with the nutritional guidance contained within the Nutritional Requirements for Food and Drink in Schools Regulations (Scotland) 2020 as detailed below:
Lower fat milk drinks containing no more than 0.5g of free sugar per 100ml
No more than 5g of total sugar per 100ml
No more than 1.8g of total fat per 100ml
Please note - It is the Glucose Syrup or Dried Glucose Syrup in the ingredients of the vast majority of Hot Chocolate that would count as added sugar, and thus would contravene the Regulations.

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