Official UK procurement notice
(NU/1745-9) Business survey for National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise 2023
Authority: Newcastle University (Education)·Consortium: 3 public authorities
What is being bought4 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionOne of NICRE’s key objectives is to connect with businesses in order to generate insight into the circumstances of rural enterprises. This business focussed objective is vital to providing an evidence base for policy and support services for rural enterprise, and also to informing NICRE’s business engagement and development plans. At the heart of this objective is NICRE’s business survey.
NICRE has a requirement to conduct a telephone survey of businesses operating in three specific regions in the UK (the West-Midlands, South-West and North-East). The survey will focus on aspects of business resilience and planning for both internal and external threats. Interviews will last around 20 minutes and should be conducted with a member of the senior management team of each organisation. Survey coverage should be broadly representative of the business population and sufficient to allow for (sub-regional) spatial, sectoral and firm size analysis. We require that the survey include non-farming and farm businesses and we propose to over-sample farm businesses and those located in rural areas. We therefore envisage a sampling structure which covers size, sector and rural/urban location within each of the three target regions
CPV: Actuarial services · Business analysis consultancy services · Business and management consultancy and related services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Economic impact assessment · Economic research services · Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis · Financial consultancy services · Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services · Human resources management consultancy services · Mergers and acquisition services · Metal · +3 more
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
- Bids received
- 4 bids received · 7 suppliers appointed
- Electronic auction
- yes
Lots and requirements (4)Procurement structure
4 lots · all with a published valueEvery one of these 2 lots carries the same published figure, £2,000,000: it is the dynamic market's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.
Lot #1BusinessAwarded UK, North Eastceiling above
Lot #2Finance UKceiling above
Provision of objective strategic and operational financial advice. This may include identification of options with recommendations as well as implementation and delivery
- Actuarial services;
- Asset management including valuation, sales and disposals;
- Business analysis;
- Capital fundraising, derivatives and hedging;
- Cash management;
- Corporate restructuring and flotation;
- Cost benefit reviews, studies, analysis and evaluation;
- Debt restructuring, management and insolvency;
- Developing and assessing project proposals;
- Financial due diligence;
- Economic analysis;
- Financial accounting and/or reporting;
- Financial performance review and viability studies;
- Financing public infrastructure projects and negotiations;
- Forecasting and budgeting;
- Foreign exchange;
- Investment, financial advice and market services;
- Mergers, acquisitions and divestment;
- Payment structure advice and risk;
- Pensions services;
- Policy impact assessments;
- Regulation and statutory requirements and/or reporting;
- Risk management;
- Tax including value added tax (VAT).
Lot #3International UKPublished value£10,000,000
Provision of objective advice relating to strategy, structure, finance, management or operations on an international basis. This may include identification of options with recommendations as well as implementation and delivery.
- Supply of international business services such as:
o Employment management
o Office management
o Student recruitment
o Marketing
o General administration
This may include identification of options with recommendations as well as implementation and delivery.
Lot #4Business advice to students and graduates UKPublished value£1,000,000
Prestart, start-up, early-stage and later stage business advice for business founded by University students and graduates including:
- Growth and scale
- Stimulating and supporting innovation
- Knowledge of business tools and methodologies e.g. lean methodology, design thinking and design sprints
- Internationalisation and trading globally
- Import and export
- Legal / IP
- Leadership and management including of individuals and teams (founders and employees)
- Human Resources
- Marketing including digital marketing
- Finance and business planning
- Social entrepreneurship
- Sales
- Technology including Deeptech and UX service design
- Freelancing
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality: Ability to meet the Requirements: 60%
- price: 40%
Published award criteria (3)
- Ability to meet the timeline: Pass/Fail
- Quality: Ability to meet the Requirements: 60%
- Price: 40%
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “(NU/1745-9) Business survey for National Innovation Centre for Rural…” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Restricted 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
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 10 Mar 2022, 15:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 22 Mar 2023, 10:46 GMT
- Authority reference
DN651163- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-008280- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-032064Find a Tender
- Review procedure
The University will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the
award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.
The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) within 30 days of knowledge or constructive knowledge of breach.
Publisher note: This DPS opportunity can be accessed by registering (or logging in if you already have an account) at: https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=f00bf000-9e9f-ec11-8112-005056b64545 Please then review the Invitation to Join Dynamic Purchasing System Document to determine if this opportunity is of interest.
How it was run
Official notice- Admission period ends
- 8 Apr 2022, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
8 Apr 2022 → 22 Mar 2023 · 2 dates- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown8 Apr 2022, 12:00 BST
- Notice published22 Mar 2023, 10:46 GMT
Notice history
5 events · 10 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 Jun 2022- Status changed to complete6 Jun 2022, 13:38 BST
- Buyer details updated11 Aug 2022, 08:56 BST
- Buyer details updated15 Aug 2022, 14:08 BST
- Buyer details updated11 Nov 2022, 13:54 GMT
- Buyer details updated28 Nov 2022, 17:07 GMT
Published amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | ClassificationII.2.2 | — | — |
1 amendment published without a description.
Routine re-releases (10)
- 2022-11: 2 releases · 11 Nov 2022, 28 Nov 2022
- 2022-08: 2 releases · 11 Aug 2022, 15 Aug 2022
- 2022-07: 1 release · 25 Jul 2022
- 2022-06: 1 release · 6 Jun 2022
- 2022-03: 1 release · 10 Mar 2022
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast8 suppliers are admitted to this dynamic market without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Contract 008280-2023-(NU/1745-9)-1
- Signed
- 16 Mar 2023
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Contract 003605-2023-NU/1745-2-1
- Signed
- 2 Feb 2023
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Contract 033708-2022-NU1745-1
- Signed
- 4 Nov 2022
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Contract 032039-2022-NU/1745-6-1
- Signed
- 1 Nov 2022
- Value
- £176,020
- Status
- active
Contract 004228-2023-NU/1745-7-1
- Signed
- 28 Oct 2022
- Value
- £100,000
- Status
- active
(NU/1745-4) Support for Due Diligence within Newcastle University Advancement
- Signed
- 12 Aug 2022
- Value
- £13,875
- Status
- active
(NU/1745-5) CAV Business Development consultant (Later Living)
- Signed
- 21 Jul 2022
- Value
- £68,000
- Status
- active
Contract 015502-2022-NU/1745-1-1
- Signed
- 26 May 2022
- Value
- £14,400
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 · Business | 4bids · 4 electronic · 7 from abroad | 4 | — | £482,169 – £1,000,000 |
| Whole notice | — | — | — | £1,000,000 – £1,000,000 |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeDispute resolution & review bodies
- Newcastle UnivsrityReview body
Suppliers admitted to the dynamic market
8 commercial parties on the notice- Collider HealthAdmitted to the market
- Creed NorthAdmitted to the market
- Grok Global ServicesAdmitted to the market
- INTO University PartnershipsAdmitted to the market
- INTO University PartnershipsAdmitted to the market
- OMB ResearchAdmitted to the market
- Parseq LtdAdmitted to the market
- XapienAdmitted to the market
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria