October 21, 2026A successful tender is about more than achieving a competitive price. For schools and MATs, a tender can be a…- October 14, 2026Tendering for catering, cleaning or other managed services is a significant undertaking for any Multi-Academy Trust. Done well, it can…
- October 7, 2026Welcome to the next instalment of our Tender Truths series, where we tackle some of the common assumptions around tendering…
- October 6, 2026When reviewing a catering, cleaning or soft facilities management contract, the question of contract length can seem fairly straightforward. Three…
- September 8, 2026The new academic year is underway and September is always a natural new beginning in education. New pupils arrive, priorities…
- June 29, 2026If you regularly reassure yourself that ‘the service is working fine’, you're not alone. In fact, it's one of the…
June 10, 2026School leaders are under increasing pressure to do more with less. Rising operational costs, stretched budgets and growing expectations around…- June 8, 2026Across both education and the workplace, operational leaders are facing the same challenge: how do you reduce costs, improve efficiency,…
June 2, 2026Across the education sector, financial pressure on Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) is intensifying. For many CFOs and COOs the challenge is…- May 18, 2026For schools, Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs), other organisations and businesses, the question of whether they should benchmark or tender their cleaning…
