Published date: 22 September 2020

Last edited date: 7 October 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 October 2020, 11:59pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Market and economic research; polling and statistics - 79300000

  • Business and management consultancy and related services - 79400000

  • Miscellaneous business and business-related services - 79900000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£0 to £94,000

Procurement reference

Invitation to Tender Cornwall Trade & Investment: Export Support Services Oct 2020 - Sept 2021

Published date

22 September 2020

Closing date

12 October 2020

Closing time

11:59pm

Contract start date

23 October 2020

Contract end date

30 September 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?

Yes

Description

Cornwall Trade and Investment (CTI) is part of Cornwall Development Company (CDC), an arms-length economic development provision of Cornwall Council and part of the Corserv Ltd group of companies. CTI is funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cornwall Council.

CTI exists to help grow Cornwall's economy - focusing on three key themes; attracting innovative, high growth SME businesses to locate in Cornwall; marketing Cornwall as a progressive, viable place to do business, and, from 2018, supporting Cornwall based SME's to export their products/services to new national and international markets.

The CTI project is measured on three key outputs; inward investors secured in Cornwall, businesses supported through the export service and number of jobs created as a result of support received.

CTI is looking to appoint an experienced international trade support provider to deliver key aspects of CTI's revised virtual export programme (as detailed in Section 5). The successful tenderer will design and run the virtual export workshops, carry out market intelligence, as well as providing the most promising 'top 15' businesses enhanced support through access to potential buyers/customers.

The successful tenderer must demonstrate a thorough understanding of the Cornwall business landscape and export opportunities that exist for Cornwall based businesses.

It is expected that 35 businesses will be supported through this revised virtual service. The trade support provider will work closely with the CTI team to ensure all project activity is focused on delivering the virtual trade service, and is ERDF compliant.

4.1 Virtual Business Support
CTI is seeking to support 35 businesses in up to five virtual trade missions between November 2020 and the close of the project in September 2021. CTI is seeking to work with high-growth, ambitious, businesses to ensure the projects meets its job creation target of 150.

4.2 Physical Trade Mission support (not part of this tender)
A further five businesses will be supported in a separate trade mission in 2021 delivered in partnership with Aerospace Cornwall and Spaceport - providing travel is safe and viable at that time.

4.3 Output requirements
As stipulated in CTI's project funding, each business needs to receive a minimum of 12 hours of support. It is expected that approximately six to eight hours will be delivered by the successful tenderer through businesses attending the virtual workshops, and the remaining four+ hours to be provided by CTI's Trade & Investment Managers who will work with businesses on a one to one basis offering further market penetration support.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Anne-Marie Sefton

Address

Station Road
Redruth
TR153QG
England

Email

anne-marie.sefton@cornwallti.com