Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2021-01-15
Buyer: Highlands and Islands Enterprise
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72224000: Project management consultancy services | 79400000 | 79411100 | 80521000
Estimated value: 550000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2021-02-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: The purpose of this tender is to identify a suitably qualified and experienced supplier to work with HIE to deliver the Pathfinder Accelerator programme over the period of 2021-2024.
It is expected that these services will be required from April 2021 for a period of 3 years, unless terminated in accordance with the provisions of the contract.
The maximum 3-year budget currently available to deliver this service is between GBP 450 000 and GBP 555 000 (excluding VAT).
The Pathfinder Accelerator is a business support programme focused on driving the growth of science, health and technology businesses. Using industry knowledge, the Pathfinder will help business teams to make the right decisions at the critical stages. Pathfinder participants will be recruited from the local business and social enterprise community, HIE’s network of innovative projects, from an active research and development base within the NHS and from academic partners.
This project will enable an agile and sustainable Pathfinder programme to become an established and mainstream contributor to the stimulation of business growth in the Highland Council area.
HIE may require the supplier to provide additional services. Any such modification shall be in terms of Regulation 72 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
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.
4B.5 It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:
HIE as a public body must comply with HMRC IR35 provisions. Therefore, where you are bidding as a personal service company (PSC) or will be using a personal service company to provide services under the framework please identify these PSC (s) in your response to 4B.6.
Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract.
The contract will include Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)/Service Levels (SLAs) which can be found within the tender documentation.
Where bidders are participating with others (SPD 2A.17) and/or relying on the capacity of other entities in order to meet selection criteria (2C.1) and/or subcontracting (2D.1) they are required to provide information relating to these entities with the relevant supporting SPD documentation being submitted.
2A.3 National Identification Number (not scored) Where relevant, bidders are required to insert details of their Companies House (or equivalent) registration number.
2C.1 and 2D.1 Where relevant, bidders are required to provide information relating to consortia and/or sub-contractors with the relevant supporting SPD documentation being submitted.
4B6 HIE as a public body must comply with HMRC IR35 provisions. Where you are bidding as a personal service company (PSC) or will be using a PSC to provide services under the contract please identify these PSC(s) in 4B.6.


Award value: 550000