Notice Information
Notice Title
The provision of wrap around consultancy to support SMEs participating in the Humber and York & North Yorkshire ERDF Funded SparkFund programme. We are seeking responses to this tender which provide costs for short term interventions with SparkFund Beneficiary SMEs in units of whole days on a pro-rata basis. Services will be called off in whole or part days, specifically quarter and half days, and will relate to specific needs of businesses as defined within the mini-competitions
Notice Description
SparkFund is a business support and grant programme which is available to Small & Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) located in either the Humber or York & North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) areas. The total value of the programme is PS15.1m and it is in receipt of PS8.4m of ERDF grant funding. SparkFund is the brand name for a programme made up of three discreet strands of support, these are: Innovation Vouchers: to enable beneficiary SMEs to secure specialist innovation support (up to PS17,500 maximum grant value). Such support will encourage and stimulate demand from SMEs to engage in innovation activity and access the expertise on offer from the knowledge base. It will help build the innovation capacity of SMEs by supporting proof of market and technical feasibility studies, early stage proof of concept and prototyping work as well as intellectual property protection. Grants for Research & Development: to enable beneficiary SMEs to secure specialist innovation support (up to PS44,300 maximum grant value). Such support will encourage and stimulate demand from SMEs to engage in innovation activity and access the expertise on offer from the knowledge base. It will help build the innovation capacity of SMEs by supporting proof of market and technical feasibility studies, early stage proof of concept and prototyping work as well as intellectual property protection. Low Carbon Grants for Research & Development: to enable beneficiary SMEs to secure specialist innovation support (up to PS42,250 maximum grant value). This activity will encourage and stimulate demand from SMEs to engage in low carbon innovation activity and access the expertise on offer from the knowledge base. It will help build the innovation capacity of SMEs by supporting proof of market and technical feasibility studies, early stage proof of concept and prototyping work as well as intellectual property protection. We are seeking responses to this tender which provide costs for short term interventions with SparkFund Beneficiary SMEs in units of whole days on a pro-rata basis. Services will be called off in whole or part days, specifically quarter and half days, and will relate to specific needs of businesses as defined within the mini-competitions Details can be found here: https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-b5fd17-affa3a98-e8fc-4ba0-b16d-67fa8c799e28
- Publication Source
- Contracts Finder
- Latest Notice
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/afc24f08-2600-4b01-8ea9-832ee5d51e16
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
66 - Financial and insurance services
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
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- CPV Codes
66171000 - Financial consultancy services
79140000 - Legal advisory and information services
79212000 - Auditing services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £320,000 £100K-£500K
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 14 Aug 20196 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 16 Sep 2019Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 2 Dec 2019 - 31 Dec 2021 2-3 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- UNIVERSITY OF HULL
- Contact Name
- Adam Jacklin
- Contact Email
- a.g.jacklin@hull.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- 01482 463263
Buyer Location
- Locality
- HULL
- Postcode
- HU6 7RX
- Post Town
- Hull
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLE Yorkshire and The Humber
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLE1 East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLE11 Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Electoral Ward
- University
- Westminster Constituency
- Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/afc24f08-2600-4b01-8ea9-832ee5d51e16
14th August 2019 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder -
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