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Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS) Consultancy Framework

Business ServicesCPV 79400000
ValueValue not published
Awarded
Published23 Mar 2021
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded
Colin Barr Associates Ltd + 1 more

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

Who to contact
Joanne Napier
joanne.napier@scotent.co.uk
+44 1414686024

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

The brief

Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS) are a nationally delivered programme across Scottish Enterprise (SE), Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE) whose purpose is to offer advice, best practice business diagnostics and practical productivity implementation support via Business Improvement Projects.

3rd Party support has historically been offered via procured frameworks to provide additional capacity and capability across a variety of business improvement topics.

SMAS helps deliver a high-profile programme that helps manufacturing business across Scotland improve their competitiveness.

This programme has an excellent market reputation and SE are keen to continue delivery in a sector that is important to exports and economic growth.

This consultancy framework will be used to appoint consultants to deliver Operational Management, Lean consultancy and Six Sigma expertise to supplement and enhance the offering to manufacturing businesses from SMAS Scottish Enterprise are seeking to put in place a multi-lot, multi-supplier framework to deliver productivity support to the Scottish Manufacturing Community and wish to appoint associates to 7 different lots to deliver support for the next three years, with an anticipated start of November 2020, with the option to extend for up to 1 further year.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

3rd Party support has historically been offered

3rd Party support has historically been offered via procured frameworks to provide additional capacity and capability across a variety of business improvement topics.

02

SMAS helps deliver a high-profile programme

SMAS helps deliver a high-profile programme that helps manufacturing business across Scotland improve their competitiveness.

03

This consultancy framework will be used

This consultancy framework will be used to appoint consultants to deliver Operational Management, Lean consultancy and Six Sigma expertise to supplement and enhance the offering to manufacturing businesses from SMAS.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
award · Awarded
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
005876-2021
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