This notice announces an administrative change to an existing contract or market (a contract change notice). No new tender or admission is opened here; see the linked notices below for the original opportunity.
Official UK procurement notice
Growth Hub 2025 · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Essex County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGrowth 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.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - limited competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Administrative change
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 May 2025, 09:39 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Aug 2025, 09:55 BST
- Authority reference
PL0109- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-048262- Latest notice
- Contract change notice (UK10)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050cd3Find a Tender
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 May 2025- Contract details notice published6 May 2025, 09:39 BSTUK7
- Contract change notice published13 Aug 2025, 09:55 BSTUK10
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smarter SocietySME | £25,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · Smarter SocietySME
- Signed
- 30 Apr 2025
- Value
- £25,000
- Period
- 12 Aug 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
- Status
- active
- Change 12 Aug 2025 Department of Business and Trade, as part of the Growth Hub contract, have provided an additional amount of funding to Growth Hubs with the request to support mutual/cooperative and high street businesses to align with their Backing Essex Business plan and their aspiration to support alternative and high street businesses. The service provider will use the additional funding to target and provide support to the required alternative and high street businesses. The change enacted was covered in the initial specification but as funding rules had not been confirmed at the point of tender it was an option to be exercised at a later date once the rules on funding were known. Change enacted under permissible change permissible on the basis of section 8 (1) from PA23 regulations
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Smarter Society LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract change notice Contract change notice on Find a Tender
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender