--- title: "Create Growth Programme" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-050d9c" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-050d9c" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-050d9c.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-050d9c.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Award" buyer: "WEST YORKSHIRE COMBINED AUTHORITY" published: "2025-07-29" --- # Create Growth Programme Buyer: WEST YORKSHIRE COMBINED AUTHORITY Current stage: Award OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-050d9c [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-050d9c) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-050d9c.json) ## Summary The West Yorkshire Combined Authority has awarded a contract as part of its Create Growth Programme aimed at stimulating investment in the creative industries within West Yorkshire. The programme, funded by the DCMS, includes three strands: business support, access to finance, and investor capacity building. The successful tenderer, Creative England Ltd, will deliver business support while collaborating with Innovate UK on the other strands. Announced on 29th July 2025, the contract is valued at a gross amount of £1,402,500 with an initial contract period starting on 13th August 2025 and extending until 31st March 2026, with the possibility of two 12-month extensions, making it a total potentially lasting until March 2028. The procurement followed an open procedure under an award completed in July 2025, after a series of engagements and planning initiated as early as May 2025. This tender creates substantial opportunities for businesses, particularly those with a focus on supporting creative industries through structured business support services. Given the collaborative nature of the project with Innovate UK, businesses with experience in securing investment funds and enhancing investor confidence in the creative sector would be well-positioned to benefit. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs), like Creative England Ltd, which successfully secured the contract, exemplify the scale of enterprise suitable to leverage growth from this programme. Firms with a background in navigating local, regional, and national investment networks could find long-term potential for growth and development within the framework provided by this procurement. ## Notice Funded by the DCMS, the Create Growth Programme (CGP) aims to stimulate investment into the creative industries (CI), through the provision of three complementary strands of activity: The CGP comprises three complementary strands: A) business support targeted at the creative industries; B) access to finance; C) investor capacity-building activities. Strand B (access to finance) is separately funded by Government, and is being delivered by Innovate UK through tranches of grant funding and innovation competition funding rounds that will be delivered concurrently with this tender (details of which will be announced in April / May 2025). The successful tenderer will be expected to deliver strand A (business support), and collaborate with Innovate UK on strand B (finance) and strand C (investor capacity building) in West Yorkshire, while collaborating with Innovate UK, to enhance West Yorkshire businesses' access to the available funding. As such, the delivery partner should be able to demonstrate extensive experience of delivering business support activities for Creative Industrise businesses, a track-record of securing investment funds from local, regional and national investment networks, and experience of working with the investor community to build capacity and confidence to invest in Creative Industry businesses. The initial contract period budget is PS318,750. We anticipate including 2 x 12 months optional extensions subject to funding. The 2 x 12 month extensions equate to PS850,000 or PS425,000 per optional extension. ### Lot Information Lot LOT-0000 Renewal: Included is an extension option of two, 12-month periods. ### Planning Information In May 2025, we published a UK3 Planned Procurement Notice (PPN) under the new Procurement Act 2023 (PA23), which included details and registration information for a Market Engagement Event relating to the future commissioning of the Create Growth Programme. The Market Engagement Event took place on Tuesday 13th May 2025, from 13:00 to 13:30 PM, and was held online via Microsoft Teams. The purpose of the event was to assess market interest, outline our commissioning strategy and ambitions, present key information including our funding position and proposed timeline, and introduce the e-tendering portal (YORtender) that will be used for the procurement. The session also included a Q&A segment to allow suppliers to raise queries. The event slides and recording which covers any Q&A responses will be made available to all potential bidders as part of the tender documentation. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/043683-2025 | | Notice type | UK6 - Contract Award 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 | 29 Jul 2025 | | Submission deadline | 23 Jun 2025 | | Future notice date | 27 May 2025 | | Award date | 25 Jul 2025 | | Contract period | 13 Aug 2025 - 31 Mar 2026 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £1,168,750 | | Lots value | £1,168,750 | | Awards value | £1,168,750 | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Complete | | Lots status | Complete | | Awards status | Pending | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | WEST YORKSHIRE COMBINED AUTHORITY | | Locality | LEEDS | | Post town | Leeds | | Postcode | LS1 2DE | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber | | ITL 2 | TLE4 West Yorkshire | | ITL 3 | TLE42 Leeds | | Local authority | Leeds | | Electoral ward | Little London & Woodhouse | | Westminster constituency | Leeds Central and Headingley | | Delivery location | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLE4 West Yorkshire | ## Supplier | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Number of suppliers | 1 | | Supplier names | CREATIVE ENGLAND | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 98 - Other community, social and personal services ### Codes - 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services ## Release History - 29 Jul 2025 at 08:00 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/043683-2025 - 28 May 2025 at 07:45 - Tender - UK4 - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027914-2025 - 27 May 2025 at 08:46 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027576-2025 - 7 May 2025 at 09:18 - Planning - UK3 - Planned Procurement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019288-2025 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/043683-2025 29th July 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027914-2025 28th May 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027576-2025 27th May 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019288-2025 7th May 2025 - Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=93765&B= - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents - https://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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