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title: "Business Support for the Third Sector"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-034098"
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# Business Support for the Third Sector

Buyer: SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-034098

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## Summary

The Scottish Government has recently completed the procurement process for the contract titled "Business Support for the Third Sector" in the services industry category. The procurement stage was an award, with the contract awarded to supplier CEIS. The contract, valued at 4,708,140 GBP, includes a potential 12-month extension option and requires a mobilisation period ending on 24th May 2023. The buying organisation, the Scottish Government, based in Glasgow, sought a service provider to deliver start-up support, business development, and leadership services to the third sector in Scotland.

This procurement process presents an opportunity for businesses providing consultancy and training services, especially in financial consultancy, personnel training, and business development. The contract entails supporting the third sector in areas such as strategy planning, leadership development, and social impact measurement. Businesses offering cyber security, financial planning, and marketing services would be well-suited to compete. The contract also emphasises community benefits, such as job creation and apprenticeships, aligning with the Scottish Government's commitment to enhancing support for social enterprises and equality groups.

## Notice

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

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005992-2023 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Planning, Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 1 Mar 2023 |
| Submission deadline | 14 Nov 2022 |
| Future notice date | 25 Aug 2022 |
| Award date | 15 Feb 2023 |
| Contract period | 24 Feb 2023 - 31 Mar 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £4,720,000 |
| Lots value | £4,720,000 |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £4,708,140 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT |
| Locality | GLASGOW |
| Post town | Glasgow |
| Postcode | G2 8EA |
| Country | Scotland |
| ITL 1 | TLM Scotland |
| ITL 2 | TLM3 West Central Scotland |
| ITL 3 | TLM32 Glasgow City |
| Local authority | Glasgow City |
| Electoral ward | Anderston/City/Yorkhill |
| Westminster constituency | Glasgow North |
| Delivery location | TLM Scotland |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | CEIS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 66 - Financial and insurance services
- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 66171000 - Financial consultancy services
- 79411100 - Business development consultancy services
- 79632000 - Personnel-training services
- 79900000 - Miscellaneous business and business-related services

## Release History

- 1 Mar 2023 at 12:27 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005992-2023
- 6 Oct 2022 at 10:31 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/028052-2022
- 27 May 2022 at 07:40 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/014834-2022

## Notice URLs

- http://www.scotland.gov.uk
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000708552
- https://cyberassessment.gov.scot/
- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA10482
- https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/web/login.html

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