Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-02-13
Buyer: Liverpool City Region Local Enterprise Partnership
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79411100
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-03-11
Award criteria: Explain the process for engaging businesses and delivering the necessary services as described above, How will you ensure you engage with the necessary amount of businesses?, What systems will be in place to ensure businesses move from engagement on to diagnostic/brokerage?, How will you ensure that you are able to offer all the services listed in section 8 of the document?, Price
EU fund: ERDF

Technical requirements: Explain the process for engaging businesses and delivering the necessary services as described above
How will you ensure you engage with the necessary amount of businesses?
What systems will be in place to ensure businesses move from engagement on to diagnostic/brokerage?
How will you ensure that you are able to offer all the services listed in section 8 of the document?
Price
The LEP has been awarded funds by the BEIS to continue to manage and deliver a Local Growth Hub for the Liverpool City Region, this funding will initially be matched by ERDF.
The Local Growth Hub intends to continue with its current approach and therefore, wishes to engage Brokerage Partners covering each of the 6 Local Authority (LA) areas of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral. In addition, the LEP are seeking a specialist broker to cover harder to reach groups including Women, BAME Groups, and Social Economy businesses across the City Region. Therefore, there will be a total of 7 lots that suppliers can bid for.
The LEP has been awarded funds by the BEIS to continue to manage and deliver a Local Growth Hub for the Liverpool City Region, this funding will initially be matched by ERDF.
The Local Growth Hub intends to continue with its current approach and therefore, wishes to engage Brokerage Partners covering each of the 6 Local Authority (LA) areas of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral. In addition, the LEP are seeking a specialist broker to cover harder to reach groups including Women, BAME Groups, and Social Economy businesses across the City Region. Therefore, there will be a total of 7 lots that suppliers can bid for.
Local Growth Hub Brokerage Partners will be a primary access point for brokerage to a wide range of business support services in the Local Authority area covered by the Local Growth Hub, which will include the provision of the following Services:
The Supplier shall broker business into the most appropriate support available from a wide range of local, national and commercial providers. It is then for the business to determine, from the information provided, which provider they select to provide services, using appropriate procurement and evaluation where applicable. It is the responsibility of the supplier to have sufficient and demonstrable knowledge of all support available in the LCR.
Suppliers will have a duty to contribute to the success of the other support programmes available in the City Region. Suppliers will be accountable for ensuring that all the components of the Local Growth Hub are considered equally and there is a requirement to ensure, in particular, that they are referring businesses to European Programmes of support.
The Supplier will be required to record all activity accurately and comprehensively onto the Local Growth Hub CRM system to LEP guidelines. The data should be recorded onto the system in ‘real time’ as the data will be used to regularly report to BEIS to demonstrate the performance of the Local Growth Hub and will allow the LEP to ensure the support delivered to businesses is appropriate and effective.
The Supplier shall utilise www.localgrowthub.com or any other system as specified by the LEP for the online search and identification of appropriate services for business. This will be maintained by the Local Growth Hub with current information on services for businesses in a readily searchable format.
If Suppliers directly deliver services to businesses, they must ensure and demonstrate to the LEP’s satisfaction that these services are considered equally alongside those of other providers when delivering the Services. Businesses must always be brokered into the most suitable service for them and their needs. This is essential to the delivery of the Local Growth Hub. Activity and performance will be subject to regular monitoring and scrutiny by the LEP.