Published date: 30 March 2016

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 April 2016

Contract summary

Industry

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    • Miscellaneous business and business-related services - 79900000

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Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

AUD10075 INNOVATING FOR GROWTH SCALE UPS PROGRAMME - PRODUCT & SERVICE INNOVATION MODULE

Published date

30 March 2016

Closing date

12 April 2016

Contract start date

17 May 2016

Contract end date

30 June 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Not applicable

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

The British Library's Business & IP Centre is designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs from that first spark of inspiration to successfully launching and growing a business.

With funding support from the European Regional Development Fund, the Centre launched the 'Innovating for Growth' programme in late 2011 to focus on providing support to growth businesses, as opposed to start ups. Innovating for Growth - Phase 1 was completed in December 2015. Innovating for Growth - Phase 2 is due to start service delivery in May 2016, subject to final funding approval.

The 'Innovating for Growth - Scale-ups' programme aims to use the Centre's unique resources and expertise to help high-growth businesses scale up, through developing new products and services and entering new markets. Each SME completes a number of face-to-face support modules through a combination of one-to-one meetings and workshops, which are tailored to the SME's needs.

The face-to-face support, combined with practical workshops, is designed to accelerate each SMEs progress to the next stage. The Business & IP Centre's information professionals alongside selected delivery partners will help each SME to put together a growth strategy and plan for their business, as well as identifying the workshops and one-to-one's each SME will need to attend to hone their business knowledge and skills.

The module available for tender is:

AUD10075 Product & Service Innovation Module

The Product & Service Innovation module will be conducted through one-to-one meetings.

The successful bidder will help each SME on the programme to develop a successful and sustainable growth plan, through helping them optimise their business processes. Through optimising business processes, this module will help SMEs successfully bring their new products or services to market.

This module will focus on the left side of the Business Model Canvas, which includes elements where enhancements are likely to have the greatest impact on the client's ability to successfully commercialise product/service ideas.

If you are interested in tendering for this opportunity please browse to www.bl.bravosolution.co.uk and click on the View current opportunities and notices link for further details.


About the buyer

Address

British Library
Wetherby
LS23 7BQ
England

Email

andy.kemp@bl.uk