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Status: Awarded
Published Date: 07/01/2016
Closing Date: 29/01/2016
Value: neg.
Provision of Specialist Business Advice (Lot 1) and Presenters (Lot 2) - LOT 1 - Provision of Specialist Business Advice • Specialist expertise in any or all of the following disciplines: marketing, PR, tender writing, social media, business planning, HR, operations, ICT, exports, finance and funding, strategy, legals etc. This, however, represents a sample of disciplines and innovative proposals and other specialisms are welcomed. • To provide a minimum of 12 hours of support to each allocated SME client over a number of engagements. • Ideally professional qualifications. • Experience and knowledge of working with existing SMEs. • Experience of being self employed / running your own business / enterprise at a senior level. • Ability to deliver one to one sessions with SMEs (on site) or group sessions at short notice as need arises. • Ability to work with a wide range of SME clients from many different backgrounds and to adapt style to meet the needs of different SME client groups. • No volumes are specified but we would expect Advisors to be available on a call down basis across Cheshire & Warrington. LOT 2- Provision of Workshop Presenters • Specialist expertise in any or all of the following disciplines: marketing, PR, tender writing, social media, business planning, HR, operations, finance and funding, ICT, strategy, legals etc. This, however, represents a sample of disciplines and innovative proposals and other specialisms are welcomed. • To deliver workshops on an on-demand basis. • Ideally relevant professional qualifications; • Experience of delivering training / workshops to groups of around 6-18 individuals. • Experience and knowledge of working with existing businesses / SMEs. • Experience of being self employed / running your own business / enterprise at a senior level. • Ability to work with a wide range of clients from many different backgrounds and to adapt style to meet the needs of different client groups. • Flexible availability with the ability to respond rapidly to need as it arises.

Status: Closed
Published Date: 08/12/2015
Closing Date: 07/01/2016
Value: neg.
Knowledge for Healthcare - independent audit - Health Education England (HEE) was established as a Special Health Authority in June 2012, taking on some functions from October 2012 before assuming full operational responsibilities from April 2013. HEE provides leadership for the new education and training system. It ensures that the shape and skills of the future health and public health workforce evolve to sustain high quality outcomes for patients in the face of demographic and technological change. HEE ensures that the workforce has the right skills, behaviours and training, and is available in the right numbers, to support the delivery of excellent healthcare and drive improvements. HEE supports healthcare providers and clinicians to take greater responsibility for planning and commissioning education and training through the development of Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs), which are statutory committees of HEE. The establishment and development of HEE was set out in ‘Liberating the NHS: Developing the Healthcare Workforce, From Design to Delivery’, the Government’s policy for a new system for planning commissioning education and training. The driving principle for reform of the education and training system is to improve care and outcomes for patients and HEE exists for one reason alone – to help ensure delivery of the highest quality healthcare to England’s population, through the people we recruit, educate, train and develop. The key national functions of the organisation include: • Providing national leadership for planning and developing the whole healthcare and public health workforce • Authorising and supporting development of Local Education and Training Boards and holding them to account • Promoting high quality education and training which is responsive to the changing needs of patients and communities and delivered to standards set by regulators • Allocating and accounting for NHS education and training resources – ensuring transparency, fairness and efficiency in investments made across England. • Ensuring security of supply of the professionally qualified clinical workforce • Assisting the spread of innovation across the NHS in order to improve quality of care Delivering against the national Education Outcomes Framework to ensure the allocation of education and training resources is linked to quantifiable improvements. (see attachment for further details)

Status: Closed
Published Date: 04/12/2015
Closing Date: 08/02/2016
Value: neg.
UK SBS PR150120 - *** PLEASE NOTE - THIS IS NOT A PROCUREMENT *** The UK Government recognises that innovation and the establishment of innovative entrepreneurial businesses drives growth in the economy, and within individual businesses. The Sirius Programme, run by UKTI, was set up to attract talented innovative young entrepreneurs with ground-breaking ideas from outside the UK. Over the last two years, the Sirius Programme has established a strong brand internationally – with over 2000 applications from across the world. It has demonstrated that it can attract a large number of highly talented overseas graduates, who apply and compete for the opportunity to establish innovative businesses in the UK. It has a simplified visa channel enabling entry into the UK in support of building an innovative business here, and has proved its worth in successfully establishing high growth, investor-ready businesses in the UK, which attract considerable publicity for their award-winning products and services. UKTI wishes to transfer the operation of the Sirius Programme to a partner, or consortium of partners, who can add their expertise in operating the programme in a way which continues to benefit the UK, and who can also identify and develop business opportunities leveraged from the reputation of the Sirius Programme internationally, the access it provides to the most talented young overseas graduate entrepreneurs and their ideas, and the domestic and international profile that it can provide to bidders in the entrepreneurship arena – both to foreign entrepreneurs and to institutions in those countries. UKTI proposes to transfer the operation of the Sirius Programme for a specified period, with the intention that this be rolled over as long as the Government objectives are being met, and to do this by licensing rights in relation to the brand and other assets used in the programme, as well as transferring UKTI’s expertise and experience in the Programme. UKTI believes the Sirius Programme offers value to a broad range of partners in the private, third and education sectors. It offers; an internationally recognised brand and the ability to market the programme ‘in partnership with UKTI’, access to the international networks and expertise of UKTI and a proven delivery model for attracting entrepreneurs from across the world with award-winning, leading edge technologies and services. Please refer to the attached Sirius Programme Prospectus (and associated Annexes) for full details. *** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CLOSING DATE/TIME FOR OFFERS TO BE RECEIVED IS 08/02/2016 AT 12:00 HOURS ***

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 30/11/2015
Closing Date: 29/11/2015
Value: £500
SO16011; Cabinet Office Press Cuttings; Variation of SO14339 - This contract has already been awarded and it being published for transparency purposes only. This is a variation to extend the duration of contract ref. SO14339 Cabinet Office Press Cuttings Service by 1 week whilst the new contract is mobilised.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 19/11/2015
Closing Date: 18/09/2015
Value: £116,250
Leeds' Bid for European Capital of Culture - Advice to develop Leeds Bid for European Capital of Culture 2023.

Status: Closed
Published Date: 03/11/2015
Closing Date: 23/11/2015
Value: £100,000
GB-Colchester: Creative Business Centre Operator *Duplicated* - Colchester Borough Council are seeking an operator to deliver a vibrant, cohesive space which offers both flexible and permanent workspace for a broad range of creative industries. We envisage the Creative Business Centre to be a hub for both creative businesses and individuals, providing not only workspace but support, events, learning and social opportunities to foster greater collaboration and sector development. The selected operator will have the opportunity to develop an incubator specifically targeted to nurture and support startups in the Creative sector alongside more established anchor tenants. With a total refurbishment scheme cost of circa £3m, Colchester Borough Council intends to provide the completed building to an operator under a management agreement to be run in accordance with a set of agreed framework objectives. Whilst funding exists for Phase 1 and this programme of redevelopment has already commenced, it is envisaged that an operator is secured to manage the whole building and submissions are required which demonstrate the operators proposals for development of the final phase of delivery. It is proposed that the completed phase 1 of the centre will continue to be run as a creative incubator whilst Phase 2 is progressed.

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 23/10/2015
Closing Date: 13/10/2015
Value: £40,000
Business Support Services 2015/16 - The Partnership seeks to appoint a business support provider/ providers to deliver a range of defined business support services in the Partnership area between inception of the contract and the end of March 2016. The appointed provider(s) will be required to: Ø Create and deliver a business start-up programme including seminars and targeted one-to-one advice Ø Create and deliver a mechanism for providing grant support for business start-ups Ø Create and deliver a mechanism for providing grant support for digital media businesses Ø Create and deliver a mechanism for providing advice and grant support to existing SME and micro businesses wishing to grow

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 16/10/2015
Closing Date: 23/10/2015
Value: £50,000
UK SBS PS150219 Space Mission - Innovate UK is the UK’s innovation agency. Its goal is to accelerate economic growth by stimulating and supporting business-led innovation. Innovate UK is a government agency, based in Swindon and sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). Innovate UK brings together business, research and the public sector, supporting and accelerating the development of innovative products and services to meet market needs, tackle major societal challenges and help build the future economy. It delivers its objectives through a series of programmes, in which businesses are encouraged to participate in, such as Collaborative Research & Development, Smart, and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, and, in order to help businesses internationally, Entrepreneur Missions. This specification relates solely to the Entrepreneur Missions programme. Innovate UK supports events known as ‘Entrepreneur Missions', run in partnership with UKTI, Catapults and private sector partners, in which a selected group of innovative and often early-stage UK companies are given intensive support to get them ready to travel to countries strong in innovation and enterprise, such as the US, Brazil or India. The number of Entrepreneur Missions run by Innovate UK is currently small – 3 to 4 every year. As a result, the organisation has decided not to manage Entrepreneur Missions out of core resources, but to contract out the preparation and project management of the missions and logistical support before, during and after, the missions. Each mission is therefore delivered in partnership with a private sector contractor to provide this expertise. The aim of the current tender, therefore, is to procure the services of a private sector provider to support the next Entrepreneur Mission in the Space sector, to the US market in November 2015. The main objective of this and all other Entrepreneur Missions is to grow the participating businesses through early internationalisation. Specific objectives are for the mission companies to 1. Raise investment 2. Generate sales leads 3. Establish new connections

Status: Closed
Published Date: 30/09/2015
Closing Date: 13/10/2015
Value: £40,000
Business Support Services 2015/16 - The Partnership seeks to appoint a business support provider/ providers to deliver a range of defined business support services in the Partnership area between inception of the contract and the end of March 2016. The appointed provider(s) will be required to: Ø Create and deliver a business start-up programme including seminars and targeted one-to-one advice Ø Create and deliver a mechanism for providing grant support for business start-ups Ø Create and deliver a mechanism for providing grant support for digital media businesses Ø Create and deliver a mechanism for providing advice and grant support to existing SME and micro businesses wishing to grow

Status: Awarded
Published Date: 04/09/2015
Closing Date: 01/06/2015
Value: £34,000
Surrey St Employers Agent - Contract administration and cost consultancy advice for development of 52 houses at Surrey St, High Peak