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# Social Enterprise Business Accelerator

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/social-enterprise-business-accelerator-ocds-h6vhtk-03d60e). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** South Lanarkshire Council: "Social Enterprise Business Accelerator". Published status: complete. Published Value: £160,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 26 Jul 2023, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [South Lanarkshire Council](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/south-lanarkshire-council-ons-s12000029)
- **Published Value:** £160,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 26 July 2023 at 12:00 BST
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Training programme services
- **Delivery Location:** UKM95
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £76,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-03d60e`

## 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/social-enterprise-business-accelerator-ocds-h6vhtk-03d60e#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/social-enterprise-business-accelerator-ocds-h6vhtk-03d60e#participate

## Description
South Lanarkshire Council's Community and Enterprise Resources, Enterprise and Sustainable Development Services required to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced service provider to deliver a Social Enterprise Accelerator Programme.  The programme required to be completed within financial year 2023/2024, with the potential to extend the programme should additional funding become available to the Council.
The Social Enterprise Business Accelerator will deliver entrepreneurial training, upskilling and business support for leaders of Social Enterprises and Enterprising Third Sector Organisations based in South Lanarkshire.
The programme will be delivered through a mix of online and in person sessions.
Using the Council’s community benefit matrix, the Council calculated that the minimum total of community benefit points which must be delivered under this contract is a minimum of 40 Community Benefit points.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 80521000
- **Delivery regions:** UKM

- **Description:** An Open Tendering Procedure was published on PCS-T on 14th June 2023 with a closing date of 26th July 2023 at 12 noon.
Tenders were invited on a Price / Quality basis.  The mechanism for assessing tenders was comprehensively detailed within the ‘Eval...
- **Contract Period:** 03/09/2023 to 31/03/2024

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 029127-2023-SLC/CE/23/030-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Inspirent Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-31177`
  - Value: £76,000 † (exc. VAT)

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

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 029127-2023-SLC/CE/23/030-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £76,000
  - Signed Date: 01/10/2023

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F029127-2023)
- **Last Source Update:** 2023-10-03T13:50:21.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T15:48:35.729Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-03d60e