Published date: 15 June 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: 12 July 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Business and management consultancy services - 79410000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£1 to £283,334

Procurement reference

LGH003

Published date

15 June 2020

Closing date

12 July 2020

Contract start date

3 August 2020

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Growth Platform wishes to engage Brokerage Partners covering each of the 6 Local Authority areas of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral. In addition, we are seeking a specialist broker to engage harder to reach groups including women, BAME groups and social economy businesses across the City Region.
Suppliers will need to be able to flex and adapt to Growth Platform's and Local Authority Growth Directors responses to Covid 19 should these alter throughout the duration of the contract. We would expect the successful suppliers to liaise and work with Local Authority Growth Directors and Economic Development teams in their contracted areas to ensure they are aligned with local priorities.
A focus for Growth Platform going forward is the engagement of businesses that have not been engaged with the Local Growth Hub Service or its services previously in order to increase the reach of Local Growth Hubs and subsequently Growth Platform. In addition to attracting new businesses, Local Growth Hub Brokerage Partners will be expected as a minimum to undertake the following;

• Encourage business resilience and adaptation as a response to Covid 19
• Support businesses with getting back to work
• Promotion of Growth Platform services, in particular, Growth Platforms suite of business support programmes and LCR ERDF funded projects
• Marketing of the Local Growth Hub and its services
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive records on the Growth Platform CRM Portal in 'real time'
• Provide monthly delivery reports on activities including, events delivered, issues raised, issues resolved and issues to be escalated
• Provide weekly intelligence reports detailing the specific issues that businesses convey as barriers including those relating to Covid 19 and EU exit, identify emerging issues/trends in respect of potential economic shock
• Collaboration with local delivery and brokerage partners
• Mapping of business support services
• Provision of business information
• Business pre start, start up and growth diagnostic
• Identification on high growth potential/ scale up businesses
• Provision/ facilitation of business networks
• Any other necessary required ancillary services

More information

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Additional text

The contract is for an initial 8 month period to run from 3rd August 2020 to 31st March 2021, budget £83,224. There is a possibility of two 12 month extensions to the contract at Growth Platform's absolute discretion, subject to funding, performance and strategic alignment.

Please ensure you read the ITT and respond on the response from on the Growth Platform tender page by the submission deadline

About the buyer

Contact name

Lisa Duddridge

Address

1 Mann Island
Liverpool
L3 1BP
England

Telephone

01512272727

Email

lisa.duddridge@growthplatform.org

Website

https://growthplatform.org/tenders/