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# SC21072 Equity Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/sc21072-equity-services-ocds-h6vhtk-0318e3). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Kent County Council: "SC21072 Equity Services". Published status: complete. Published Value: £210,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 21 Mar 2022, 12:00 GMT. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [Kent County Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/kent-county-council-ons-e10000016)
- **Published Value:** £210,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 21 March 2022 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Financial and insurance services
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ4
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0318e3`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **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/sc21072-equity-services-ocds-h6vhtk-0318e3#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [procontract.due-north.com](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprocontract.due-north.com%2FAdvert%2FIndex%3FadvertId%3D8aed55cd-af90-ec11-8112-005056b64545)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/sc21072-equity-services-ocds-h6vhtk-0318e3#participate

## Description
Kent County Council (the Council) is the largest local authority in England covering an area of 3,500 square kilometres. It has an annual expenditure of over £1bn on goods and services and a population of 1.6m. The Council provides a wide range of personal and strategic services on behalf of its residents, operating in partnership with the NHS Kent and Medway Clinical Commissioning Group, 12 district councils, and 289 parish/town councils.
The Council consists of four directorates:
-Adult Social Core and Health
-Children, Young People and Education
-Growth, Environment and Transport
-Strategic and Corporate Services
This service is being commissioned on behalf of the Growth, Environment and Transport directorate.
This activity supports Kent County Council’s Interim Strategic Plan by helping to deliver the Kent and Medway Economic Renewal and Resilience Plan, more specifically delivering essential support for local businesses.
KCC has taken equity stakes in a number of companies via investments from the former Regional Growth Fund (RGF) schemes (Expansion East Kent, Tiger and Escalate), the Kent and Medway Business Fund and the SELEP funded Innovation Investment Scheme, known as Bespoke Equity Fund (BEF) portfolio and is seeking to procure a delivery partner to support, advise and assist these companies, with a £70,000 excluding vat gross per annum budget funded by KCC for the financial period until March 2024. Procurement was undertaken in compliance with the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 66000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Estimated Value:** £210,000
- **Description:** The council is looking to procure a delivery partner to work on behalf of KCC to support, advise and assist businesses in receipt of equity investments within the Bespoke Equity Fund (BEF) portfolio, to help them grow, increase productivity, create/p...

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** SC21072 Equity Services (active)
  - Award id: `016300-2022-SC21072 Equity Services-1`
  - Supplier(s): **Newable Ventures Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-55371`

- **Award:** SC21072 Equity Services (active)
  - Award id: `016300-2022-SC21072 Equity Services-2`
  - Supplier(s): **Newable Ventures Limited**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-55371`

## Contracts (2)
- **Contract:** SC21072 Equity Services (active)

  - Signed Date: 13/04/2022

- **Contract:** SC21072 Equity Services (active)

  - Signed Date: 13/04/2022

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F016300-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-06-14T14:11:27.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-30T18:03:58.715Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0318e3