How to win: Catering Concession at Dales Countryside Museum

About this contract

The Authority wishes to award a contract for a catering franchise located within the Dales Countryside Museum building, adjacent to the National Park Visitor Centre. The Museum is open 7 days a week throughout the year but is closed for part of January. The café would be required to be open when the Museum is open and the franchise will be able to offer approximately 30 covers within the building, together with the opportunity to serve food outside on picnic tables. There is an upper limit of 50 covers. The service and offer must meet the Kids in Museums Family Café Standard. The catering franchise may be opened independently of the Museum.

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £36,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 3 June 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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