Notice Information
Notice Title
SC230178 - Investment, Financial Due Diligence Support Services
Notice Description
Kent County Council (KCC) has awarded a contract to provide independent financial appraisal reports to support the investment decisions of the KCC managed business investment schemes.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The key requirements of the Service are as follows: a) to attend to 2-3 monthly decision meetings on request; b) to prepare at the full application stage for each eligible applicant of the KCC managed business investment schemes, a financial appraisal report. This report should contain business and financial analysis of the investment proposal and be submitted via KCC to the monthly decision meetings; c) to prepare at the debt recovery stage for existing loan recipients of KCC managed business investment schemes, a financial appraisal report. This report should contain business and financial analysis of the current financial position of the business to assist in the understanding of the current financial position of a company. This report to be submitted via KCC to the monthly decision meeting; d) Each financial appraisal report should include a range of information to assist the monthly decision-making meeting make its Recommendations i.e., to Partially Fund/Fully Fund/Reject/Defer, suggest conditions, repayment schedule and security (if funding was to be offered); e) there may be an ad-hoc requirement for follow-up independent appraisal work connected with the KCC managed business investment schemes. Most of this work can be undertaken remotely but attendance at designated Investment Advisory Board (IAB) or Subgroup (SG) meetings and the Debt Recovery Group meeting are also a requirement for the contractor. The contract may be extended for a further period of up to 24 months.
Renewal: The initial contract period is 36 months. The contract may be extended by two further periods of 12 months. The maximum contract duration is 60 months.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0401af
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/058982-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Selective
- Procurement Method Details
- Restricted procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
-
- CPV Codes
79412000 - Financial management consultancy services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 23 Sep 20255 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 18 Oct 2023Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 22 Nov 20232 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Cancelled
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- KENT COUNTY COUNCIL
- Contact Name
- Miss Molly Roast
- Contact Email
- molly.roast@kent.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 3000414141
Buyer Location
- Locality
- MAIDSTONE
- Postcode
- ME14 1XQ
- Post Town
- Rochester
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLJ South East (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLJ4 Kent
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLJ45 Mid Kent
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Maidstone
- Electoral Ward
- Penenden Heath
- Westminster Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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