Award

Create Growth Programme

WEST YORKSHIRE COMBINED AUTHORITY

This public procurement record has 4 releases in its history.

Award

29 Jul 2025 at 08:00

Tender

28 May 2025 at 07:45

Planning

27 May 2025 at 08:46

Planning

07 May 2025 at 09:18

Summary of the contracting process

The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has awarded a contract as part of its Create Growth Programme aimed at stimulating investment in the creative industries within West Yorkshire. The programme, funded by the DCMS, includes three strands: business support, access to finance, and investor capacity building. The successful tenderer, Creative England Ltd, will deliver business support while collaborating with Innovate UK on the other strands. Announced on 29th July 2025, the contract is valued at a gross amount of £1,402,500 with an initial contract period starting on 13th August 2025 and extending until 31st March 2026, with the possibility of two 12-month extensions, making it a total potentially lasting until March 2028. The procurement followed an open procedure under an award completed in July 2025, after a series of engagements and planning initiated as early as May 2025.

This tender creates substantial opportunities for businesses, particularly those with a focus on supporting creative industries through structured business support services. Given the collaborative nature of the project with Innovate UK, businesses with experience in securing investment funds and enhancing investor confidence in the creative sector would be well-positioned to benefit. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), like Creative England Ltd, which successfully secured the contract, exemplify the scale of enterprise suitable to leverage growth from this programme. Firms with a background in navigating local, regional, and national investment networks could find long-term potential for growth and development within the framework provided by this procurement.

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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.

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

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

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

CREATIVE ENGLAND

Further Information

Notice Documents

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