Notice Information
Notice Title
Create Growth Programme
Notice Description
Funded by the DCMS, the Create Growth Programme (CGP) aims to stimulate investment into the creative industries (CI), through the provision of three complementary strands of activity: The CGP comprises three complementary strands: A) business support targeted at the creative industries; B) access to finance; C) investor capacity-building activities. Strand B (access to finance) is separately funded by Government, and is being delivered by Innovate UK through tranches of grant funding and innovation competition funding rounds that will be delivered concurrently with this tender (details of which will be announced in April / May 2025). The successful tenderer will be expected to deliver strand A (business support), and collaborate with Innovate UK on strand B (finance) and strand C (investor capacity building) in West Yorkshire, while collaborating with Innovate UK, to enhance West Yorkshire businesses' access to the available funding. As such, the delivery partner should be able to demonstrate extensive experience of delivering business support activities for Creative Industrise businesses, a track-record of securing investment funds from local, regional and national investment networks, and experience of working with the investor community to build capacity and confidence to invest in Creative Industry businesses. The initial contract period budget is PS318,750. We anticipate including 2 x 12 months optional extensions subject to funding. The 2 x 12 month extensions equate to PS850,000 or PS425,000 per optional extension.
Lot Information
Lot LOT-0000
Renewal: Included is an extension option of two, 12-month periods.
Planning Information
In May 2025, we published a UK3 Planned Procurement Notice (PPN) under the new Procurement Act 2023 (PA23), which included details and registration information for a Market Engagement Event relating to the future commissioning of the Create Growth Programme. The Market Engagement Event took place on Tuesday 13th May 2025, from 13:00 to 13:30 PM, and was held online via Microsoft Teams. The purpose of the event was to assess market interest, outline our commissioning strategy and ambitions, present key information including our funding position and proposed timeline, and introduce the e-tendering portal (YORtender) that will be used for the procurement. The session also included a Q&A segment to allow suppliers to raise queries. The event slides and recording which covers any Q&A responses will be made available to all potential bidders as part of the tender documentation.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-050d9c
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/043683-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK6 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
98 - Other community, social and personal services
-
- CPV Codes
98000000 - Other community, social and personal services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £1,168,750 £1M-£10M
- Lots Value
- £1,168,750 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- £1,168,750 £1M-£10M
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 29 Jul 20256 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 23 Jun 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 27 May 2025Expired
- Award Date
- 25 Jul 20257 months ago
- Contract Period
- 13 Aug 2025 - 31 Mar 2026 6-12 months
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Pending
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- WEST YORKSHIRE COMBINED AUTHORITY
- Contact Name
- Sukhninder Kaur
- Contact Email
- commercialteam@westyorks-ca.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 1133481770
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LEEDS
- Postcode
- LS1 2DE
- Post Town
- Leeds
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLE Yorkshire and The Humber
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLE4 West Yorkshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLE42 Leeds
- Delivery Location
- TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLE4 West Yorkshire
-
- Local Authority
- Leeds
- Electoral Ward
- Little London & Woodhouse
- Westminster Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/043683-2025
29th July 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027914-2025
28th May 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027576-2025
27th May 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019288-2025
7th May 2025 - Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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