---
title: "Growth Hub 2025"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-050cd3"
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source: "Find A Tender Service"
current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL"
published: "2025-08-13"
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# Growth Hub 2025

Buyer: ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-050cd3

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## Summary

Essex County Council is leading the procurement process for the "Growth Hub 2025" contract, aimed at bolstering business support services. This initiative, classified under the business and management consultancy industry category, is located in the Chelmsford region and seeks to provide essential resources for high street and cooperative businesses in line with Essex County Council's "Backing Essex Business" plan. Following an amendment on 12th August 2025, the contract received additional funding from the Department of Business and Trade to enhance its service offerings. This procurement reached the award and contract stages, with Smarter Society Limited, a small to medium enterprise, actively engaged from 1st May 2025 to 31st March 2026. The procurement method was limited, focusing on below-threshold competition, enhancing the capacity for localised business cooperation.

This tender presents substantial growth opportunities for businesses specialising in management consultancy and related services, particularly those with expertise in supporting small to medium enterprises. Enterprises capable of delivering comprehensive business support, such as one-on-one advisories and consultations tailored to diagnostic assessments, will find this contract beneficial. The contract’s alignment with government-funded initiatives further supports business stability and potential growth, encouraging innovative participation from SMEs, especially those focusing on enhancing local economies and navigating business landscapes.

## Notice

Growth Hubs are an established business support service provided, which provide free and impartial signposting, information, and advice to all businesses looking to succeed, helping them to navigate the national and local support landscape. It is Government grant funded annually by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and provides a one stop shop for business support services that offers: * Information, navigation, and signposting via a coordinated, multi-channel service * One-to-one structured support to small and medium enterprises, incorporating a diagnostic assessment of business needs and advice and guidance.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/048262-2025 |
| Notice type | UK10 - Contract Change Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Below threshold - limited competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 13 Aug 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 29 Apr 2025 |
| Contract period | 11 Aug 2025 - 31 Mar 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £25,000 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL |
| Locality | CHELMSFORD |
| Post town | Chelmsford |
| Postcode | CM1 1QH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH3 Essex |
| ITL 3 | TLH36 Heart of Essex |
| Local authority | Chelmsford |
| Electoral ward | Moulsham and Central |
| Westminster constituency | Chelmsford |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | SMARTER SOCIETY |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 79400000 - Business and management consultancy and related services

## Release History

- 13 Aug 2025 at 08:55 - ContractAmendment - UK10 - Contract Change Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/048262-2025
- 6 May 2025 at 08:39 - Award - UK7 - Contract Details Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018972-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/048262-2025
  13th August 2025 - Contract change notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018972-2025
  6th May 2025 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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