Stale Pre-tender

P27-0032 Life Sciences Cluster Development Organisation

Details

Buyer: Scottish Enterprise
Value: £160,000
Topic: Development consultancy services
Published: 8 July 2026
Source: uk:public_contracts_scotland

Tender description

In November 2025, the new Life Sciences Strategy for Scotland was published. This 10-year strategy sets a direction of travel, with actions set out in a series of delivery plans which can be adapted and enhanced as progress is made and new opportunities emerge. It includes a commitment to establish a new industry-led cluster development organisation (CDO). We will soon be seeking bids for a new Cluster Development Organisation to support the Life Sciences sector in Scotland. Lot 1: A report was commissioned in 2025 to inform the design of a cluster development function that meets the needs of Scotland’s Life Sciences industry, with the aim of stimulating inclusive and sustainable growth of the sector in the coming years. Informed by this report, we will be procuring for a new Cluster Development Organisation to support the Life Sciences sector in Scotland.. Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published8 July 2026
Current notice

About the buyer

Scottish Enterprise is Scotland's national economic development agency, a non-departmental public body accountable to the Scottish Government with its own dedicated procurement team. A published procurement forward plan sets out the contracts the agency still expects to bring to market. The Scottish Government's Suppliers Charter guides how the agency treats its bidders and suppliers.

Its Supplier Development Programme prepares small and third-sector suppliers across Scotland to compete for public contracts.

Over the past 5 years, most of Scottish Enterprise's contract awards have been in business services, research and development and architectural and engineering services.

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