Notice Information
Notice Title
Business Support for Third Sector Organisations
Notice Description
The Scottish Government is seeking a supplier to work with them to market and deliver business support services during 2019-23 to the third sector in Scotland. Successful delivery requires a supplier with expertise & experience of delivering professional client-focussed business development services across a wide geographic area. Knowledge of the third sector landscape in Scotland is important as well as the ability to communicate with sectoral stakeholders Familiarity with the key markets in which third sector organisations operate will be needed to ensure the support being offered is pertinent. Knowledge of where other forms of public support are already available to the sector will ensure that these services remain additional and complementary to mainstream business support available. The Supplier is required to ensure service continuity from 24 May 2019 to 23 May 2022. An option to extend this contract for one year will be considered at the sole discretion of the Scottish Ministers.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Scottish Government is seeking a Supplier to work with them to market and deliver business support and development services during 2019-23 to the enterprising third sector in Scotland. This contract will build on the success of the business support currently being delivered through the Scottish Government's 'Just Enterprise' business support programme. Successful delivery requires a Supplier with expertise and experience of delivering fully supported professional client-focussed business development services across a wide geographic area. A knowledge of the third sector landscape in Scotland will be important as well as the ability to communicate and engage with sectoral stakeholders so that the benefits of the services may be accessed by as many enterprising organisations as possible. The Supplier will use their expertise to ensure that only organisations with the best potential of being more enterprising are taken forward for support. Familiarity with the key markets in which third sector organisations operate will be needed to ensure the support being offered is pertinent. Knowledge of where other forms of public support and services are already available to the sector (i.e. from Third Sector Interfaces, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Business Gateway and Scottish Enterprise and other providers) will ensure that these services remain additional and complementary to mainstream business support already available. The Supplier is required to ensure service continuity from 24 May 2019 to 23 May 2022. A further option to extend this contract for one year will be considered at the sole discretion of the Scottish Ministers 9 months prior to the contract expiry date.
Renewal: An option to extend this contract for one year will be considered at the sole discretion of the Scottish Ministers 9 months prior to the contract expiry date
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-r6ebe6-0000565435
- Publication Source
- Public Contracts Scotland
- Latest Notice
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUN356902
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- OJEU - F3 - 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
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
79411100 - Business development consultancy services
79632000 - Personnel-training services
79900000 - Miscellaneous business and business-related services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- £4,750,000 £1M-£10M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £4,750,000 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 10 Jun 20197 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 8 Feb 2019Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 20 May 20197 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- Scottish Government
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- GLASGOW
- Postcode
- G2 8LU
- Postcode Area
- Glasgow
- Country
- Scotland
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- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM3 West Central Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM32 Glasgow City
- Delivery Location
- TLM Scotland
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- Local Authority
- Glasgow City
- Electoral Ward
- Anderston/City/Yorkhill
- Westminster Constituency
- Glasgow North
Further Information
Notice Documents
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https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=DEC339375
Business Support for Third Sector Organisations - The Scottish Government is seeking a supplier to work with them to market and deliver business support services during 2019-23 to the third sector in Scotland. Successful delivery requires a supplier with expertise & experience of delivering professional client-focussed business development services across a wide geographic area. Knowledge of the third sector landscape in Scotland is important as well as the ability to communicate with sectoral stakeholders Familiarity with the key markets in which third sector organisations operate will be needed to ensure the support being offered is pertinent. Knowledge of where other forms of public support are already available to the sector will ensure that these services remain additional and complementary to mainstream business support available. The Supplier is required to ensure service continuity from 24 May 2019 to 23 May 2022. An option to extend this contract for one year will be considered at the sole discretion of the Scottish Ministers. -
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUN356902
Business Support for Third Sector Organisations - The Scottish Government is seeking a supplier to work with them to market and deliver business support services during 2019-23 to the third sector in Scotland. Successful delivery requires a supplier with expertise & experience of delivering professional client-focussed business development services across a wide geographic area. Knowledge of the third sector landscape in Scotland is important as well as the ability to communicate with sectoral stakeholders Familiarity with the key markets in which third sector organisations operate will be needed to ensure the support being offered is pertinent. Knowledge of where other forms of public support are already available to the sector will ensure that these services remain additional and complementary to mainstream business support available. The Supplier is required to ensure service continuity from 24 May 2019 to 23 May 2022. An option to extend this contract for one year will be considered at the sole discretion of the Scottish Ministers.
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