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title: "Business Support Services for Third Sector Organisations"
ocid: "ocds-r6ebe6-0000694497"
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source: "Public Contracts Scotland"
current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT"
published: "2022-05-27"
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# Business Support Services for Third Sector Organisations

Buyer: SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-r6ebe6-0000694497

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## Summary

The Scottish Government is initiating a procurement process titled "Business Support Services for Third Sector Organisations," aimed at providing tailored business support to social enterprises and third sector organisations across Scotland. The process is currently in the planning stage, with a planned future notice date set for 26th August 2022. The contract, valued at £3.6 million, is classified under the services procurement category, focusing particularly on general public services. Interested parties can shape the procurement strategy through a survey available until 24th June 2022.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses specialising in consultancy, social enterprise support, and related services. Companies involved in areas such as business recovery, financial planning, and leadership training would particularly benefit from participating. The Scottish Government aims to enhance support for social enterprises, making this an attractive prospect for businesses looking to expand their market reach within the third sector in Scotland.

## Notice

This prior information notice is to inform the market that Scottish Government intends to publish a procurement in order to seek a supplier to provide business support services to Third Sector Organisations in Scotland. As part of the pre-procurement process the Scottish Government is seeking views and information from the market in connection with the required services to help inform the procurement strategy and scope of the Contract.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Since June 2011, free specialist business support has been available nationally to the enterprising Third Sector funded by the Scottish Government. The contract for delivering business support for the Third Sector plugs the gap for the many small and medium-sized social enterprise organisations across the country that would be unable to access mainstream business support. Specialist business support for the third sector means support that is tailored to meet the specific needs of the sector, for example, around charitable trading, social enterprise and community-led business planning and may include advice on topics such as: - Start-up support. - Post Start up support. - Business skills and competencies. - Growth and financial sustainability. - Leadership training and development. - Business recovery and resilience. - Pre-investment support, financial planning. - Procurement and technical tendering support. - Support for marketing/communications and digital/online services. - Capacity building for a wider range of equalities groups - Social impact measurement advice. - International awareness raising and capacity building. - Event facilitation. The bespoke service offers one-to-one advice from business advisors, as well as one-to-many workshops on specialist topics and is viewed as an exemplar service internationally. Through Scotland's Social Enterprise Action Plan 2021-2024, the Scottish Government has committed to: work with sector partners and national agencies to enhance the national ecosystem of support for new-start social enterprises and a pipeline of support throughout their journey; ensure that our mainstream business support services continue to recognise and appropriately support social enterprises, while at the same time enhancing specialist provision. The current contract expires in May 2023 and the Scottish Government will aim to invite tenders for the next generation contract in August/September 2022. This Prior Information Notice is to allow for Suppliers to consider in advance of the launch of the ITT whether they/or their subcontracting consortium have capacity and capability to bid, and to provide potential bidders and those with an interest in the service and how it is delivered, an opportunity to help shape the scope the new contract to ensure it continues to meet the needs of the third sector going forward. To this end, Scottish Government invite interested parties to complete a short survey, which will be available until Friday 24th June 2022 , the responses of which will be considered and used to shape the scope of the contract and the procurement strategy for these services. See section 11.2.14) Additional information for link to Survey.. Please use the following link to access Survey in relation to Business Services for Third Sector Organisations: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=R3T3DoMQ7E24nyfHZQdoQHj6xFNiRKlLrNTidXw7MiVURUM3VDBKVVRIQzRJNkxZSURFOEQxMjZLVS4u The information provided will be confidential and used to inform the Strategy for the intended future procurement.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Public Contracts Scotland |
| Latest notice | https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAY449673 |
| Notice type | OJEU - F1 - Prior Information Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 27 May 2022 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 26 Aug 2022 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £3,600,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## 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 |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 66 - Financial and insurance services
- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 66122000 - Corporate finance and venture capital services
- 66171000 - Financial consultancy services
- 72600000 - Computer support and consultancy services
- 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
- 79220000 - Fiscal services
- 79340000 - Advertising and marketing services
- 79410000 - Business and management consultancy services
- 79411100 - Business development consultancy services
- 79418000 - Procurement consultancy services
- 79420000 - Management-related services
- 79900000 - Miscellaneous business and business-related services

## Release History

- 27 May 2022 at 00:00 - Planning - OJEU - F1 - Prior Information Notice - https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAY449673

## Documents

- https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=MAY449673
  Business Support Services for Third Sector Organisations - This prior information notice is to inform the market that Scottish Government intends to publish a procurement in order to seek a supplier to provide business support services to Third Sector Organisations in Scotland. As part of the pre-procurement process the Scottish Government is seeking views and information from the market in connection with the required services to help inform the procurement strategy and scope of the Contract.

## Notice URLs

- http://
- https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id=ocds-r6ebe6-0000694497
- https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=R3T3DoMQ7E24nyfHZQdoQHj6xFNiRKlLrNTidXw7MiVURUM3VDBKVVRIQzRJNkxZSURFOEQxMjZLVS4u
- https://www.gov.scot/

## Provenance

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