Woman's group loses loses bath meals contract
01 January 2000
The Women's Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS)has lost a meals-on-wheels contract in Bath, after doing the work for many years.
From next month the contract to provide 138,000 meals per year will go to Bath and North East Somerset Council's former in-house caterer, now privatised, which won it via a tendering process.
Maureen Gardner, the council's head of community services, said the contract was renewed every four years, but this was the first time the authority had been through the tendering process since being created two years ago.
"We are having talks with the WRVS to see if we can find a role for them," she said. A spokesman for the WRVS said contracts had been lost before but "it works both ways".
