Closed tender

Business Scale-up Programme (2024-25)

Details

Value
£65,000
Published
18 May 2024
Submission
14 June 2024

Tender description

The council (Hammersmith & Fulham Council) seeks to procure a sole supplier to deliver a business scale up programme that offers 50 unique participants consisting of Entrepreneurs, Small & Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Microbusinesses access to business benchmarking diagnostics, growth plans, 1-2-1 mentoring and a Dragons Den Style “Competition”. The programme should engage with local businesses who need to scale up an existing business. The engagement can be mix of virtual web platforms, online meetings (Zoom, Skype, Google Meet etc), venue-based, and/or site-based outreach. The supplier must deliver the programme using the following requirements: Requirement-1) Comprehensive 1-2-1 Business Support Consisting of:. a) Business diagnostic benchmarking tool and Growth Plan b) 1-2-1 Mentoring sessions Requirement-2) Dragons Den Style Competition for SMEs Outcomes Deliver a high-quality business support offer to promote business growth and reflect our ambition to make Hammersmith and Fulham the best place to do business. Authority Priorities: This programme supports the delivery ambitions of the H&F Industrial Strategy – Economic Growth for Everyone. • Encouraging Enterprise - We want Hammersmith & Fulham to be the best borough in Europe for business to start up, survive and grow. • Taking pride in H&F: -Helping businesses survive and thrive - We will expand our support for new businesses, enhancing our advice and mentoring services.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published18 May 2024
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Submission date14 June 2024

About the buyer

London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is a west London local authority that runs its own procurement function serving the borough's services. Every opportunity is advertised through capitalEsourcing, the council's e-tendering portal, where suppliers register once for free. Framework agreements from the Crown Commercial Service, ESPO, NEPO and YPO offer additional routes to market alongside dynamic purchasing systems. Larger contracts move to the Find a Tender Service, while smaller opportunities are offered directly to local suppliers first. The H&F Local Supply Chain Project helps local construction and property maintenance firms bid for council and framework contractor work.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham's contract awards have been in construction work, health and social work and IT services.

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