Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-01-24
Buyer: Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 73220000 | 79400000 | 79410000 | 79411000 | 79411100
Estimated value: 177820 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The sustainable growth of adventure tourism is a strategic priority for HIE and our ambition is to accelerate business growth across targeted cohorts of adventure tourism businesses. Delivery of the project will focus on the creation of up to 5 place-based cohorts across the Highland Council geography.
The programme will seek to work with not only established businesses, but also micro businesses and aspiring businesses looking to start up in the sector. Through the provision of intensive support, the aim is to enable participant businesses to collaborate to create scale in a global sector where the Highlands has a natural competitive advantage.
Phase 1 of the programme will focus on the design and build of an innovative and inspirational programme that will stimulate ambition, reflect international best practice and further develop business capability, growth and competitiveness, followed by Phase 2, recruitment, management and delivery of the programme.
The project is a component of Highlands and Islands Enterprise’s Northern Innovation Hub (NIH) which is funded from the UK and Scottish Government’s City Region-Deal. The Northern Innovation Hub covers the Highland Council local authority region and therefore this programme will only be delivered across the Highland region and not the full Highlands and Islands Enterprise region.
HIE reserves the right, on giving reasonable written notice from time to time, to require changes to the Services (whether by way of the removal of services, the addition of new services, or increasing or decreasing the services or specifying the order in which the Services are to be performed or the locations where the services are to be provided). HIE shall not require any such change other than where it is permitted by Regulation 72 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
In accordance with Regulation 72(1)(a) of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, HIE reserves the right to make changes to the volume, scope or location of the services following a review of the services by HIE, particularly with regard to demand.
Where HIE determines (at our sole discretion) that demand for the programme in one potential cohort is lower than expected, HIE reserves the right not to start that cohort or establish another cohort in an area where there is already a cohort, but sufficient demand exist.
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.
An economic operator that suffers, or is at risk of suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 , may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or the Court of Session.


Winner: Business and Tourism Solutions Ltd
Award value: 177820
Number of bids: 5