Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-03-22
Buyer: Scottish Enterprise
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services | 79400000 | 79410000 | 79411100
Estimated value: 2715000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-04-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Scottish Enterprise (SE) directly delivers a variety of services and programmes through a comprehensive, differentiated account management service that provides strategic engagement and access to a wide range of specialists, products and services to over 2000 companies. The newly launched Start2Scale service is part of that account managed service providing end-to-end focussed, targeted and connected support for those companies and ambitious entrepreneurs to accelerate the journey from start up to scaling.
The strategic objective of the Start2Scale service is to increase the number of companies in Scotland with a potential to scale their turnover to 50 GBP - 100 000 000 GBP.
Life sciences high growth start up specialists will possess specific experience of working in the Life Sciences industry in areas such as: Medical devices, Drug discovery and testing, Stem cells; Diagnostics and therapeutics; Industrial Bio-Tech; BioTools; Regenerative medicine; Connected health; Chemical sciences and Animal health.
The framework duration will be 3 years with an option to extend for 12 months. The estimated total value detailed in this Contract Notice includes the 1 year optional extension.
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.
Energy high growth start up specialists will possess specific experience of working in the energy industry in areas such as: Oil and Gas, Renewable energy (e.g. offshore wind power, wave power, tidal power, solar power, geo thermal power, and bio-fuels), Smart grids; Fuel cells, Water and heat solutions and Clean tech (energy efficient technologies and carbon capture and storage).
The framework duration will be 3 years with an option to extend for 12 months. The estimated total value detailed in this Contract notice includes the 1 year optional extension.
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.
Technology/Digital media/Non Technology high growth start up specialists will possess specific experience of working in technology sectors and subsectors such as: High-tech manufacturing and engineering industries such as advanced or precision engineering, electronic devices and systems, communications, network hardware and data, internet of things, wearable technology, information technology and digital or creative markets including Software, Internet and Mobile Apps, Music and Video technologies, Electronic publishing, Computer games, Fintech, Informatics, Cyber security and Digital health and wellbeing.
Suppliers in this Lot will also require to demonstrate experience in non technology sectors such as Food and drink, tourism, financial and business services and construction. Consequently, this lot will likely require a higher number of proposed advisors than the other lots.
The framework duration will be 3 years with an option to extend for 12 months. The estimated total value detailed in this contract notice includes the 1 year optional extension.
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.
Q4B.1.2 — Bidders will be required to have an average yearly turnover detailed below for the past 2 years.
Q4B.3 — Where turnover information is not available for the time period requested, the bidder will be required to state the date which they were set up or started trading.
4B.5.1 Please confirm whether you already have or can commit to obtain, prior to the commencement of the contract, appropriate levels of


Award value: 2715000