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Awarded · ResultStage · award

West of England Combined Authority

Social Economy Project Support Provider

Community ServicesCPV 98112000
Value£1,000,000
Awarded
Published15 Dec 2023
RegionNationwide

£1,000,000 — awarded.

Outcome — awarded
GWE Business West

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Who to contact
commercial@westofengland-ca.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£1.0mtotal contract value
median £134k
this tender£0£4.1m

This is a large award for Other Community & Personal Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 5,835 valued Other Community & Personal Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

To support and grow the social economy in the region, whilst also addressing the current issues of sustainment in the market and the demand for income diversification from the sector.

An experienced business support provider(s), working in partnership with the Combined Authority (CA), is required.

Importantly, support should be available to organisations to explore growth opportunities, along with sustainment and risk management.

This will include developing new income streams, building cash reserves, financial management, and building capabilities.

The service will be broken into five key areas of delivery: • A range of themed workshop, responsive to the needs of the recipient organisations • Mentoring from experienced social entrepreneur(s) • Specialist consultancy where necessary • Peer networks with mixed representation of organisational structures • An accelerator service (this will be for a limited number of organisations each year).

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

To support and grow the social economy

To support and grow the social economy in the region, whilst also addressing the current issues of sustainment in the market and the demand for income diversification from the sector.

02

An experienced business support provider(s), working in

An experienced business support provider(s), working in partnership with the Combined Authority (CA), is required.

03

Importantly, support should be available to organisations

Importantly, support should be available to organisations to explore growth opportunities, along with sustainment and risk management.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
award · Awarded
Source
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Buyer ref
036911-2023
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