Published date: 30 September 2020

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 16 October 2020, 2pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Business development consultancy services - 79411100

Location of contract

PO1 2BJ

Value of contract

£10,000 to £100,000

Procurement reference

P00003416

Published date

30 September 2020

Closing date

16 October 2020

Closing time

2pm

Contract start date

2 November 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Portsmouth City Council (the council), on behalf of the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is inviting tenders from suitably qualified and experienced providers.

The scope of which will comprise of but may not be limited to provision of a facilitator or range of facilitators to support the delivery of the Solent Peer to Peer Network programme.

The Solent LEP is seeking a maximum of 10 facilitators to support peer to peer cohorts across the Solent. The facilitators must be able to deliver the programme over an 18 week period, 2 hours per week, until 31st March 2021.

It is envisaged that the 10 cohorts will be divided as follows:
- 1 cohort per each local authority area with the Solent LEP (Southampton, Portsmouth, Havant, Gosport, Fareham, Isle of Wight, New Forest and Eastleigh)
- 1 Marine and Maritime cohort
- 1 female entrepreneur cohort

This opportunity is offered on a Lotted basis with each Lot made up of 1 cohort. Bids are invited for individual Lots/cohorts, or to deliver a number of Lots/cohorts. Each Lot/cohort will be awarded separately and the council and the Solent LEP reserve the right to award between 1 and 10 suppliers as necessary.

Each Lot/cohort has a budget of £10,000.

The initial contract period will be for approximately 4 months, ending on 31st March 2021.

The closing date for receipt of your expression of interest is given against the heading entitled - Date documents can be requested until.

More information

Links

Additional text

Portsmouth City Council is currently in the process of seeking expressions of interest for the following project - Independent expertise to provide Action Learning facilitators for the Solent LEP Peer to Peer Network Programme.

The full details and ability to express an interest will be via our e-sourcing system Intend. This filepath will take you to the relevant area of Intend,

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/portsmouthcc/aspx/Tenders/Current

Once on the page you can either scroll down or use the search function to find the relevant project.

Should you have any problems with the above link, please contact us on 023 9268 8235 or email: procurement@portsmouthcc.gov.uk


Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Procurement Service

Address

Guildhall Square
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO1 2BJ
United Kingdom

Telephone

023 9268 8235

Email

procurement@portsmouthcc.gov.uk