Award

Business Support for the Third Sector

SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT

This public procurement record has 2 releases in its history.

Award

01 Mar 2023 at 00:00

Tender

06 Oct 2022 at 00:00

Summary of the contracting process

The Scottish Government has awarded a contract for "Business Support for the Third Sector" to a service provider. The procurement process was completed on 1st March 2023. The contract, valued at £4,708,140, was awarded following an open procedure. The Scottish Government sought services related to general public services and environmental protection. The contract is currently in the award stage, and the contract was signed on 15th February 2023. The procurement was led by the Scottish Government based in Glasgow, UK. The goal of the contract is to provide start-up, business support, and leadership development services to the enterprising third sector in Scotland.

The tender "Business Support for the Third Sector" by the Scottish Government offers business growth opportunities to service providers who can deliver various components such as start-up support, business skills, leadership training, and more. Businesses specialising in services related to support, consultancy, and development would be suitable to compete for this tender. The procurement method used for this opportunity was an open procedure, and the contract value is significant at £4,700,000. The tender specifies requirements for cyber security, minimum security standards, and staff payment conditions. The Scottish Government aims to enhance the impact reporting and approach to equality and diversity through this tender process.

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Notice Title

Business Support for the Third Sector

Notice Description

The Scottish Government is seeking a service provider to work with them to market and deliver start-up, business support, and leadership development services to the enterprising third sector in Scotland.

Lot Information

Lot 1

The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of tailored Business Support to the Third Sector. The Scottish Government is seeking a supplier to work with them to market and deliver start-up, business support, and leadership development services to the enterprising third sector in Scotland. The Service Provider must deliver the following components to service recipients through the contract: - Start-up support which considers a range of potential business models, and makes effective referrals if social enterprise models are not the most appropriate based on sound legal understanding of each business model. - Support for organisations post start-up moving to trading and becoming established enterprises - Business skills and competencies, for example, strategy and business planning and income generation - Planning for growth and achieving financial sustainability - Leadership training, coaching and development - Business recovery and resilience, with early intervention where possible - Pre-investment support, financial planning and an independent brokerage service to assist the enterprising third sector to access the most appropriate social investment products across a spectrum of levels of investment - Procurement and technical tendering support to both individuals and consortia (tender training and development, bid writing, bid review) with effective signposting to existing resources like the Supplier Development Programme - Support for marketing/communications and digital/online services and ecommerce with effective signposting to existing resources such as Digital Boost - Sector-specific support for just transition to Net Zero - Raising awareness of the service across equality and diversity groups and capacity building and pipeline support for ethnic minority and disabled social entrepreneurs, working with specialist partners where necessary, and in a way that is mainstreamed across all service areas. - Support for the sector to enhance its impact reporting of and approach to equality and diversity including effective equality data collection and monitoring - Social impact measurement advice with a focus on smaller organisations, providing one to one support for the enterprising third sector to improve their impact measurement practice based on available tools and methods, ensuring a balanced approach to demonstrating value - International awareness raising and capacity building to identify and unlock the potential of the enterprising third sector to trade internationally prior to referral to Scottish Development International. This must interface with the work of the International Social Enterprise Observatory which acts as a hub for knowledge and best practice for social enterprise and seeks to make international connections. It must also cross-refer to Challenges who are funded by the Scottish Government to set up a pipeline of support for organisations looking to internationalise their social enterprise - The new service provider will resource and initiate a series of knowledge exchanges in partnership with social enterprise delivery partners and mainstream business support agencies as part of its stakeholder relations, service promotion, horizon scanning and staff development

Renewal: The Purchaser may, by giving notice to the Service Provider, extend the period of the Contract to a date falling no later than 31 March 2027

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-r6ebe6-0000708552
Publication Source
Public Contracts Scotland
Latest Notice
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAR472469
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


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
£4,720,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
£4,720,000 £1M-£10M
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£4,708,140 £1M-£10M

Notice Dates

Publication Date
1 Mar 20232 years ago
Submission Deadline
14 Nov 2022Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
15 Feb 20233 years ago
Contract Period
24 Feb 2023 - 31 Mar 2026 3-4 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Active

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT
Contact Name
Bob McLeod
Contact Email
bob.mcleod@gov.scot, douglas.martin@gov.scot
Contact Phone
+44 1312443567, +44 1412420133

Buyer Location

Locality
ABERDEEN
Postcode
AB11 9DB
Post Town
Aberdeen
Country
Scotland

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

Local Authority
Glasgow City
Electoral Ward
Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Westminster Constituency
Glasgow North

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

CEIS

Further Information

Notice Documents

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