Telemarketing Campaign

SEMLEP wishes to appoint a sub-contractor to deliver a telemarketing service to attract Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to use the services of the Velocity Growth Hub, particularly its revenue grants programme, business adviser-support and business workshops.

More information about SEMLEP and full details of this tender opportunity and relevant documents can also be found on www.semlep.com This tender opportunity is part funded by ERDF and will form part of the Velocity ERDF Project.

Requirements The telemarketing campaign will target SMEs in Bedfordshire, Cherwell, Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire that are trading in business-to-business markets and will be interested in a grant/business support because they are actively investing in business development activities and will create new jobs in 2017/2018.

Success for this campaign will look like: • 360-420 eligible SMEs will have been engaged with the first meeting with our advisers and made aware of the services, from the 360-400 business engaged, we expect that: • 280-340 appointments will have been made for our advisers with businesses.

Businesses that are interested in receiving over 12 hours of support or receiving a revenue grant. • 80 appointments will have been made for our advisers to assist enterprises that have a new to the market product or service or new to the firm product or service.

For full information please download full the Tender Specification, SEMLEP's terms and conditions and the tender application form, which must be completed and send by email to procurement@semlep.com by the deadline stated on the procurement process timescale section on the tender specification, together with any additional information that you believe will be relevant to this tender opportunity.

Our tender evaluation panel will assess received applications as per the selection and award criteria stated below.

Selection and award criteria Introduction The tender application has a two-stage process: Part A and Part B.

The first stage will assess Part A in accordance with the Selection Criteria that assess the ability of the tenderer to perform a contract based on qualitative information related to the economic and financial standing of the applicant, suitability, equalities and insurance.

If the application passes stage one that is Part A, it will be assessed under the Award Criteria "Part B", stage two.

Stage One - Selection Criteria Section 3 to 5 of the application form is Part A.

Questions 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7 are pass / reject.

If you fail these questions, your application will be rejected.

Stage Two - Award Criteria If your application passes on "Part A" it will progress to "Part B" that is the Award Criteria.

The applications will be scored under the Award Criteria set out below: Price (30%), Ability to deliver (30%), Overall quality of submission (20%), Quality of delivery (15%) and social value (5%) Budget is £56,400 including VAT