Milk and Milk Products

The Education Authority invites tenders for the Supply and Delivery of Milk and Milk Products. The initial period will be for 4 years from the Start Date (anticipated to be July 2026) with options to extend for any additional period(s) of up to and including 24 months. This tender is divided into sixteen Subsections as follows: Armagh Area (areas 1-2), Ballymena (areas 1-7), Belfast, Dundonald and Omagh (areas 1-5). Suppliers can bid for one subsection, more than one subsection, or all subsections. Each subsection will be evaluated independently, and suppliers who bid for multiple subsections will have their submissions assessed on a separate per-subsection basis.

This Contract is established by the Education Authority and is open to the EA, including NI

educational bodies as follows, who at some point, during the life of the Contract may wish to utilise the agreement and should have access at any point, with the permission of EA.

This Contract is not intended to replace any current agreements that participating or nonparticipating institutions may already have in place.

Department of Education - Schools Plus https://www.educationni.gov.uk/services/schoolsplus

Primary and Post Primary schools under the control of the EA, Catholic Maintained Schools

Independent Schools in NI, Irish Medium Schools in NI, both Controlled and Voluntary

Grammar Schools, Nursery School for NI (both controlled, and Catholic Maintained),

Schoolmeals kitchens on-site at all of these schools, and Controlled Youth Centres.

Further Education Colleges in NI : https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/further

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NICIE - https://nicie.org/

Grant Controlled Integrated Education Schools in NI

Independent Schools in NI https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/northern-ireland/

EA Teachers' and Educational Centres

Council for the Curriculum, Examination and Assessment NI (CCEA)

Armagh Observatory and Planetarium

Middletown Centre for Autism

Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC)

Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE)

Pre-Schools and Nurseries included within the EA Pre-School Education Programme

(PSEP)

N.B. Estimated values stated, both including and excluding VAT are the same as VAT is

not applicable to the goods included under this procurement.