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The Arts Council England

PROCUREMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL ADVISORS FOR ARTS AND CULTURE ORGANISATIONS.

Financial ServicesCPV 66171000
Value£375k
Awarded18 Feb 2019
Published12 Apr 2019
RegionUK-wide
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£375ktotal contract value
median £150k
this tender£0£4.7m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Financial & Insurance Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 8,013 valued Financial & Insurance Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

The Arts Council England is now seeking to appoint suitably qualified service providers to a new framework Agreement to provide services to Arts Council on a call off basis during the period of 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2022, with an option to extend for a further 12-month period to 31 March 2023.

The Arts Council England wishes to set up a framework of suitable service providers (a maximum of 20 service providers) with expertise in a minimum of two of the following areas to support Arts Council's assessment, monitoring and decision-making across its grant programmes: - financial analysis and business plan appraisal of arts/cultural organisations - organisational change and development of arts/cultural organisations - knowledge and experience of the various governance models and structures used in the arts/cultural sector in both large and small organisations - knowledge and experience of a range of business models used in the arts/ cultural sector in both large and small organisations - knowledge and experience of specialist areas of work to support organisations to become more resilient, for example (but not limited to) retail and merchandising, HR, asset exploitation

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Agreement to provide services to Arts Council

Agreement to provide services to Arts Council on a call off basis during the period of 1 April 2019 to 31.

02

Service providers) with expertise in a minimum

service providers) with expertise in a minimum of two of the following areas to support Arts Council's.

03

Knowledge and experience of the various governance

knowledge and experience of the various governance models and structures used in the arts/cultural.

04

Knowledge and experience of a range

knowledge and experience of a range of business models used in the arts/ cultural sector in both large.

05

Knowledge and experience of specialist areas

knowledge and experience of specialist areas of work to support organisations to become more resilient,.

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