--- title: "UKSPF Business Advisory Services Tender" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-d6b93fbf-9248-448f-9f84-a9181245678d" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-d6b93fbf-9248-448f-9f84-a9181245678d" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-d6b93fbf-9248-448f-9f84-a9181245678d.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-d6b93fbf-9248-448f-9f84-a9181245678d.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "BASILDON BOROUGH COUNCIL" published: "2023-04-10" --- # UKSPF Business Advisory Services Tender Buyer: BASILDON BOROUGH COUNCIL Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-b5fd17-d6b93fbf-9248-448f-9f84-a9181245678d [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-d6b93fbf-9248-448f-9f84-a9181245678d) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-d6b93fbf-9248-448f-9f84-a9181245678d.json) ## Summary The Basildon Borough Council is seeking to procure business advisory services to support local businesses and residents over a two-year period funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The project aims to enhance business support capacity and provide targeted interventions, with a contract value of £75,000. The tender is in an open procedure stage with a tender period ending on 17th March 2023 and a contract period starting from 3rd April 2023 to 28th March 2025. This tender presents an opportunity for specialist organisations to deliver free business support services within the Basildon Borough, catering to SMEs and VCSEs. Businesses involved in feasibility studies, advisory services, and analysis can compete for this tender. The Basildon Council emphasises the importance of generating leads, meeting targets, and collaborating with the council to ensure successful project delivery and compliance with UKSPF guidelines. ## Notice Basildon Borough Council (BBC) are looking to procure a business support provider to deliver additional business support advisory services across two years - 2023/24 & 2024/25 for businesses and residents based within the Borough. This is a one-off project estimated to last two years (subject to the Council's sole option to terminate in whole or part at the end of Year 1 on at least one months' notice if the Council is not in receipt of or only partially receive the final year of UKSPF where there is a failure to meet outcomes and targets and no realistic plan to address underperformance). The allocated revenue funding is intended to cover the costs of additional Business Advisory Support Capacity, any lead generation activities and travel expenses over the lifetime of the project and the capital funding is intended to support the cost of any equipment needed, together with a number of capital grants to businesses etc. Basildon Council would envisage working with the nominated supplier to agree the precise nature and structure of the grant award programme once supplier is appointed. The provider will be expected to generate sufficient leads to achieve the contractual targets set out within the service specification, although the Council may also be able to support with some marketing and promotion. For example, in response to the situation described above, Basildon Council has been undertaking a pilot project to explore whether we could offer additional support to companies that we have identified as being 'In Distress' and those with 'Scaleup Potential', and we would envisage these companies being particularly good beneficiaries to target with the additional business advisory support capacity we put in place through this contract. This project is funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The contractor will need to have regard to the UKSPF Prospectus and Additional Guidance https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-additional-information when delivering this project to ensure that Basildon Borough Council can comply with the reporting and performance management, monitoring and evaluation, assurance and risk and branding and publicity guidelines. Basildon Borough's UKSPF Investment Plans can be found at https://basildon.gov.uk/article/9154/Basildon-for-Business-The-UK-Shared-Prosperity-Fund-UKSPF. Basildon Council requires a specialist organisation to deliver free business support across Basildon Borough for a period of up to two years for the purpose of increasing the number of businesses accessing support services from within the Borough. This will include a series of targeted interventions to raise the profile of the available support, such as (as a minimum) workshops, webinars, targeted marketing campaigns and drop-in sessions. Interested bidders please read the ITT attached to this notice. Suppliers must submit their bids on: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta and use the Access Code: RM6SJ99M29 ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ca47eeb7-83cf-4961-827f-2545c38b9353 | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Open | | Procurement method details | Open procedure (below threshold) | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 10 Apr 2023 | | Submission deadline | 17 Mar 2023 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 2 Apr 2023 - 28 Mar 2025 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £75,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | BASILDON BOROUGH COUNCIL | | Locality | BASILDON | | Post town | Southend-on-Sea | | Postcode | SS14 1DL | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLH East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLH3 Essex | | ITL 3 | TLH37 Essex Thames Gateway | | Local authority | Basildon | | Electoral ward | St Martin's | | Westminster constituency | Basildon and Billericay | | Delivery location | TLI London, TLJ South East (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 71 - Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services ### Codes - 71241000 - Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis ## Release History - 10 Apr 2023 at 14:04 - TenderAmendment - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ca47eeb7-83cf-4961-827f-2545c38b9353 - 10 Mar 2023 at 12:06 - TenderAmendment - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ca47eeb7-83cf-4961-827f-2545c38b9353 - 28 Feb 2023 at 12:14 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ca47eeb7-83cf-4961-827f-2545c38b9353 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/ca47eeb7-83cf-4961-827f-2545c38b9353 10th April 2023 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/36bd5b69-89e8-47aa-a067-199f67431498 - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/48a87d64-f6bb-40f7-a514-230a7ccb23d2 ## Notice URLs - https://basildon.gov.uk/article/9154/Basildon-for-Business-The-UK-Shared-Prosperity-Fund-UKSPF - https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-additional-information ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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