Business and management consultancy and related services

Description

This is a Contract Award Notice. This contract has now been awarded. Please do not respond to this notice. Scottish Enterprise & Highlands & Islands Enterprise are setting up a framework of Export Advisors that will support Scottish Government's ambition to have more Scottish based companies moving from non-exporters to become new exporters with international ex-UK sales part of a company's overall turnover. Furthermore the aim is also to more companies from passive exporters to active exporters where a company has more than 15 % of turnover as ex-UK Sales. Increasing the number of exporters is also a key priority in ‘Scotland's Trade and Investment Strategy’ with the same target measure and a longer term measure of increasing the number of exporters by between 30 % to 50 % in 10 years. Scottish Enterprise and its partners wish to develop a framework of suppliers that can directly support and develop the potential of new exporting companies based in Scotland. The aim is to procure a range of Lots for suppliers both prospect for new companies and provide the support they require to develop as a new exporter. The initial framework will be for 3 years with the option to extend for 1 year.