Decision details

Inflation continues to impact to the price of frozen and ambient food, resulting in the need to issue a variation/increase to the current contract by 5.36%.

The supplier has provided details of the level of price changes which reflects the actual wholesale market changes between 26th of October to date which have been substantial.

Options considered.

-       Continue with current supplier with increasing costs to the council.

-       Negotiate with the existing supplier looking at alternative food options (this has been undertaken but unfortunately did not mitigate the increases in wholesale costs)

-       Terminate the contract with the current supplier and test the market. However, this would be a high-risk strategy leading to potentially even higher cost to the Council

To implement a 5.36% variation/increase to the Frozen/Ambient food contract (Lot 1 and 2 combined) from the 20^{th of} June 2023.