Kitchen Equipment Maintenance, Deep Cleaning & Ventilation Ducting Services
Framework Description
TUCO's Kitchen Equipment Maintenance, Deep Cleaning & Ventilation Ducting Services framework gives universities and other member institutions a pre-tendered route to keep catering kitchens safe and working. It covers maintenance and repair of kitchen equipment, deep cleaning, and cleaning of ventilation ducting. The framework runs until 31 May 2027 and is a fixed-term framework rather than a DPS.
Context & Use Case
University catering and estates teams use it for planned servicing and reactive repairs of heavily used kitchen equipment, scheduled deep cleans and duct cleaning to meet hygiene and fire safety requirements. Calling off from pre-qualified suppliers saves each institution a separate tender and gives it contractors used to working around busy term-time catering.
Scope of Services
Kitchen equipment maintenance and repair Kitchen deep cleaning Ventilation ducting cleaning and maintenance
Lots
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Who Can Apply
Suits commercial kitchen engineers, specialist deep cleaning firms and duct cleaning contractors with experience of large institutional kitchens. Applications for this framework are closed; suppliers not appointed must wait for TUCO's re-tender, likely around 31 May 2027.
Buyer Benefits
Institutional kitchens run at high volumes, so breakdowns and poor hygiene quickly disrupt service. A framework of vetted specialists lets universities fix and clean equipment fast, keep duct cleaning on schedule for fire safety, and benefit from collective buying through TUCO.
Next Steps
With the framework ending on 31 May 2027, a replacement procurement is likely within months. Watch TUCO's frameworks page for the re-tender, and prepare engineer qualifications, duct cleaning certification, health and safety records and case studies from university or other large catering clients.
How Athena Can Help
TUCO's re-tender is likely to come soon, so preparation should start now. Athena's higher education bid planning helps you organise evidence and pricing early, and our bid writing and compliance review produces strong technical answers with a Bid Health Check before submission.
Our framework registration for suppliers service also finds other education and public sector kitchen maintenance frameworks that are open now, and prepares the applications so you are not relying on one route.
