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Published 15 Mar 2024, 15:19 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

CO0418 Business Support Services Future Growth Programme 2

Official notice

Authority: Essex County Council (Local council)

ServicesOpen procedureSME suitable
Published estimate£1,225,000≈ £700k / year6.4% below published estimate
Submissions closed 15 Apr 2024awarded 14 May 2024
Awarded to Let’s Do Business (South East) Group Limited
Contract term 1 yr 9 moends 31 Mar 2026 · starts 1 Jul 2024

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Open tender completed for an integrated Business Support, Financial Support, Skills Consultancy & Brokerage service.

This is a single lot with three main service areas:

1: General Business Support

2: Business Financial Advice and Support

3: Skills Consultancy and Brokerage Service

The service is for a period of 21 months to run from 1st July 2024 to 31st March 2026.

CPV: Advertising and marketing services · Business analysis consultancy services · Business and management consultancy and related services · Financial and insurance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Awarded 1 yr 9 moPublished value£1,225,000
Contract period: 1 Jul 2024 – 31 Mar 2026 (1 yr 9 mo)
Delivery: East of England
Variant bids: not allowedElectronic catalogue: required

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored
Quality: 60%Price: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality: 60
  • Price: 40
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Awarded
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
No (one-off requirement)
First published
15 Mar 2024, 15:19 GMT
Last source update
10 Jun 2024, 15:54 BST
Award evaluation window
15 Apr 2024 – …
Authority reference
DN709850
FTS notice number
2024/S 000-017892
Classification (CPV)
Advertising and marketing servicesBusiness analysis consultancy servicesBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesFinancial and insurance services
Delivery area
East of England (UKH3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-044962 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Submission deadline
15 Apr 2024, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
15 Apr 2024, 12:05 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

15 Apr 2024 → 1 Jul 2024 · 4 dates
  1. Submission deadline
    15 Apr 2024, 12:00 BST
  2. Bids opened
    15 Apr 2024, 12:05 BST
  3. Notice published
    10 Jun 2024, 15:54 BST
  4. Contract starts
    1 Jul 2024, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender
  1. Status changed to complete
    10 Jun 2024, 15:54 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 1
Awarded value £1,146,6361 contract exc. VAT
Bids received 22 from SMEs
Contracts signed 1latest 14 May 2024
Awarded toValueDateStatus
Let’s Do Business (South East) Group LimitedSMEBusiness Support Services Future Growth Programme 2£1,146,636 †—Awarded

Contracts

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
2bids · 2 electronic2——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Essex County Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services County Hall, Market Road, Chelmsford, East of England, CM1 1QHContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Royal Court of JusticeReview body LondonContact phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.