Official UK procurement notice
CO0418 Business Support Services Future Growth Programme 2
Authority: Essex County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEssex County Council (ECC) are seeking to commence procurement in March 2024 to procure an integrated Business Support, Financial Support, Skills Consultancy & Brokerage service. The service, working closely with the Government funded Growth Hub, will help provide the front door for businesses seeking advice and support in the County, enabling them to have the knowledge necessary to achieve growth and prosperity as well as access to business finance. The area covered by the service will be the Ceremonial County of Essex, excluding Southend and Thurrock Unitary Authority areas.
This procurement will be subject to internal governance.
The existing contract for Business Support Services expires on 30th June 2024. The Skills Consultancy and Brokerage service is a new requirement.
The proposed term of the contract will be 21 months. Bids can be from a single organisation, a consortium or a lead entity with sub-contracting; this will be at the supplier’s discretion but is subject to agreement from Essex County Council.
We are proposing tendering as a single lot with 3 main areas of focus:
Focus Area 1 : Business Support Service
Focus Area 2: Financial Support Service
Focus Area 3: Skills Consultancy and Brokerage Service
This Prior Information Notice (PIN) has been issued to the open market to obtain expressions of interest as well as details of indicative bidding model (single supplier, part of a group or consortium or subcontractor).
We are requesting that interested suppliers respond via emailing sam.hadi@essex.gov.uk to confirm their interest, as well as their indicative bidding model.
Responses should be submitted by EOP Friday 23rd February 2024.
Please note this PIN/Early Engagement/Request for Information is not intended as a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any future tender opportunity once the contract notice is published in Find a Tender and on Contracts Finder.
CPV: Advertising and marketing services · Business analysis consultancy services · Business and management consultancy and related services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Financial and insurance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Feb 2024, 16:28 GMT
- Last source update
- 16 Feb 2024, 16:28 GMT
- Authority reference
DN709850- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-005281- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-043ae5Find a Tender
Publisher note: Please note the invitation to tender (ITT) for this project will be carried out via Essex County Council’s eSourcing portal, Proactis ProContract. If you have not already registered, it is recommended that you do so in good time ahead of the planned procurement publication date in March 2024 as suppliers will require a registered account to participate in the tender once published. Registration is free of charge and gives bidders access to opportunities from several other Local Authority and Public Sector organisations. To register, visit: Supplier registration (due-north.com) The Proactis supplier helpdesk (https://www.proactis.com/uk/support-login/support/) can help with registration queries. Please note this PIN/Early Engagement/Request for Information (RFI) is not intended as a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any future tender opportunity once the contract notice is published in Find a Tender and on Contracts Finder. It should be noted that this PIN/RFI invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this RFI exercise only, and it is NOT a pre-qualification questionnaire, and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process. This PIN/RFI is intended as an awareness, communication, and information gathering exercise. An expression of interest in this RFI exercise is no indication of a commitment to participate in the RFI process nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who express an interest in the RFI exercise
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
16 Feb 2024 → 11 Mar 2024 · 2 dates- Notice published16 Feb 2024, 16:28 GMT
- Tender notice expected11 Mar 2024
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.