Published date: 17 April 2023

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: 2 June 2023, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Research and development consultancy services - 73200000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£15,000 to £25,000

Procurement reference

20230417114510-105170

Published date

17 April 2023

Closing date

2 June 2023

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

3 June 2023

Contract end date

4 June 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

The CIoS Local Enterprise Partnership's Creative Industry Sector Body , is seeking the services of a consultant to undertake this work, which includes the following three phases: • Phase 1: Data review To identify the baseline data. This will include the identification of the existing infrastructure and latest available evidence on the size and scale of the creative and cultural sectors in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and to conduct a desk-based review of recently commissioned reports and their recommendations for action. • Phase 2: Consultation and comparator area review To undertake a light-touch consultation exercise with local civic leaders, businesses and organisations operating in the creative and cultural sectors and to provide a high-level review of comparator areas. This will include, where possible, an assessment of how other universities have maximised their role as local anchor institutions, rooted in the local community, to support creative and cultural sector businesses in their regions. • Phase 3: Action plan To work with the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly's Creative Industries Sector Body to develop an Action Plan that clearly sets out an ambitious pathway to sustainable economic growth for Cornwall's creative and cultural sectors. The Action Plan will provide the Creative Industry Sector Body with a call to action and route to achieving greater opportunity, access, infrastructure, and investment in our cultural and creative industries. It will support Falmouth University and the University of Exeter to use their world-leading research in creative disciplines to generate impact with creative and cultural industry businesses and drive the resulting social, economic, and environmental benefits. The Action Plan will also be used as a framework to influence future local and national Government decision and policy making on what rural, semi-rural and coastal areas, like Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, need to increase resilience and maxim


About the buyer

Contact name

Elisia Irving

Address

Penryn Campus
Penryn, Cornwall
TR10 9FE
ENG

Email

procurement@fxplus.ac.uk

Website

https://fxplus.ac.uk/