Who won: Catering Equipment Servicing and Maintenance

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The Royal Household is seeking a supplier to service and maintain all catering equipment across the London and Windsor estates: Buckingham Palace, St James’s Palace, Clarence House, Kensington Palace and Windsor Castle. The scope of this contract includes: a. Planned testing and maintenance of catering equipment across all sites detailed above. b. Reactive maintenance of catering equipment across all sites detailed above. c. Standby support at all major planned events on site, and ability to attend a call-out from the Royal Household Property Section (RHPS) to an in-scope site within 2 hours and make safe within 4 hours – 24 hours a day, all year round. d. Providing quotes on request for replacement catering equipment, including electric equivalent appliances where the current appliance is gas fired. e. Performance of all maintenance services in accordance with regulatory requirements and recommendations (e.g. O&M manuals and manufacturer’s recommendations). f. Undertaking full functional and safety checks on all in-scope plant, assets, equipment and associated parts and replacement consumables to ensure full compliance with European and British Standards, Building and Fire Safety

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