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Business Support for the Third Sector

Buyer: Scottish Government →

BuyerScottish Government
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published1 Mar 2023

What is being bought

The Scottish Government is seeking a service provider to work with them to market and deliver start-up, business support, and leadership development services to the enterprising third sector in Scotland.

Delivery location

UKM

Categories

Financial consultancy services 66171000Personnel-training services 79632000Miscellaneous business and business-related services 79900000Business development consultancy services 79411100

Lot details

Lot 1

The Scottish Government has a requirement to place a contract with an external service provider for the provision of tailored Business Support to the Third Sector. The Scottish Government is seeking a supplier to work with them to market and deliver start-up, business support, and leadership development services to the enterprising third sector in Scotland. The Service Provider must deliver the following components to service recipients through the contract: - Start-up support which considers a range of potential business models, and makes effective referrals if social enterprise models are not the most appropriate based on sound legal understanding of each business model. - Support for organisations post start-up moving to trading and becoming established enterprises - Business skills and competencies, for example, strategy and business planning and income generation - Planning for growth and achieving financial sustainability - Leadership training, coaching and development - Business recovery and resilience, with early intervention where possible - Pre-investment support, financial planning and an independent brokerage service to assist the enterprising third sector to access the most appropriate social investment products across a spectrum of levels of investment - Procurement and technical tendering support to both individuals and consortia (tender training and development, bid writing, bid review) with effective signposting to existing resources like the Supplier Development Programme - Support for marketing/communications and digital/online services and ecommerce with effective signposting to existing resources such as Digital Boost - Sector-specific support for just transition to Net Zero - Raising awareness of the service across equality and diversity groups and capacity building and pipeline support for ethnic minority and disabled social entrepreneurs, working with specialist partners where necessary, and in a way that is mainstreamed across all service areas. - Support for the sector to enhance its impact reporting of and approach to equality and diversity including effective equality data collection and monitoring - Social impact measurement advice with a focus on smaller organisations, providing one to one support for the enterprising third sector to improve their impact measurement practice based on available tools and methods, ensuring a balanced approach to demonstrating value - International awareness raising and capacity building to identify and unlock the potential of the enterprising third sector to trade internationally prior to referral to Scottish Development International. This must interface with the work of the International Social Enterprise Observatory which acts as a hub for knowledge and best practice for social enterprise and seeks to make international connections. It must also cross-refer to Challenges who are funded by the Scottish Government to set up a pipeline of support for organisations looking to internationalise their social enterprise - The new service provider will resource and initiate a series of knowledge exchanges in partnership with social enterprise delivery partners and mainstream business support agencies as part of its stakeholder relations, service promotion, horizon scanning and staff development

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 70
price — 30

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Financial consultancy services, Personnel-training services, Miscellaneous business and business-related servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 66. The category anchor is Financial consultancy services (66171000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 662,7583 median · 17.2 average (1,184 of 2,758 with a bid count)2.5 average (1,316 of 2,758 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer102 median · 3 average (5 of 10 with a bid count)2 average (5 of 10 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKM843 median · 18.5 average (39 of 84 with a bid count)3.9 average (52 of 84 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

005992-2023-Case 582940-1

Statusactive
SupplierCEIS

Contracts

005992-2023-Case 582940-1

Statusactive
Value£4,708,140

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-034098
Latest release ID005992-2023
Latest release timestampWed Mar 01 2023 12:27:48 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
1 Mar 2023award, contract005992-2023
6 Oct 2022tender028052-2022
27 May 2022planning014834-2022

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (3 releases)
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6 Oct 2022 · 028052-2022 · tender
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27 May 2022 · 014834-2022 · planning
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        "description": "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.\nSpecialist 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:\n- Start-up support.\n- Post Start up support.\n- Business skills and competencies.\n- Growth and financial sustainability.\n- Leadership training and development.\n- Business recovery and resilience.\n- Pre-investment support, financial planning.\n- Procurement and technical tendering support.\n- Support for marketing/communications and digital/online services.\n- Capacity building for a wider range of equalities groups\n- Social impact measurement advice.\n- International awareness raising and capacity building.\n- Event facilitation.\nThe 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.\nThrough 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.\nThe current contract expires in May 2023 and the Scottish Government will aim to invite tenders for the next generation contract in August/September 2022.\nThis 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.\nTo 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.\nSee section 11.2.14) Additional information for link to Survey. Additional information: Please use the following link to access Survey in relation to Business Services for Third Sector Organisations:\nhttps://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=R3T3DoMQ7E24nyfHZQdoQHj6xFNiRKlLrNTidXw7MiVURUM3VDBKVVRIQzRJNkxZSURFOEQxMjZLVS4u\nThe information provided will be confidential and used to inform the Strategy for the intended future procurement."
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