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# Professional Services Support for Silicon Sands Initiative, Blackpool

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/professional-services-support-for-silicon-sands-initiative-blackpool-ocds-h6vhtk-05f9b2). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** Blackpool Council required an advisor to provide strategic, technical, commercial, and stakeholder advisory support to accelerate delivery of the Silicon Sands Initiative. Blackpool Council have called off from YPO framework reference 1141 - Managing Consultancy + professional services.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [BLACKPOOL COUNCIL](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/blackpool-council-ons-e06000009)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support, Infrastructure works consultancy services
- **Delivery Location:** UKD42
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £450,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-05f9b2`

## Before you bid
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- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/professional-services-support-for-silicon-sands-initiative-blackpool-ocds-h6vhtk-05f9b2#tl-md)

## Description
Blackpool Council required an advisor to provide strategic, technical, commercial, and stakeholder advisory support to accelerate delivery of the Silicon Sands Initiative.
The advisor will support in a number of work package areas including:
1.	Promotion of an AI Growth Zone proposition 
2.	Development of an integrated energy, grid, and digital infrastructure strategy
3.	Development of an overarching investment and funding strategy
4.	Facilitation of collaboration between public, private, and academic stakeholders.
5.	Advise on and support for the selection of investors or developer partners for all key elements of the programme 
6.	Support with governance, delivery, and financing models appropriate for long-term programme management.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 71311300, 72000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKD

- **Description:** Blackpool Council have called off from YPO framework reference 1141 - Managing Consultancy + professional services. Contract Notice Reference - 2023/S 00-002091.
Blackpool Council require an advisor to provide strategic, technical, commercial, and st...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 084628-2025-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **REED SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-163593`
  - Value: £450,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 084628-2025-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £450,000
  - Signed Date: 18/12/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F084628-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-12-18T17:13:52.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-01T20:45:47.644Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-05f9b2