Procurement Opportunity to deliver

As part of the UK government Levelling Up Agenda, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council (ERYC) has been allocated funds through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) to support us in the development of our communities, local businesses and personal skills, training, and professional development. Through supporting local businesses our priority aims are, to: • Create jobs and boost community cohesion by supporting local businesses • Promote networking and collaboration • Stimulate innovation and growth • Help and support businesses to grow Through providing a wraparound business support service our key Investment priorities are, to support: • Businesses at all stages of their development to start, sustain, grow, and innovate • Improvements to town centre retail and service sector infrastructure • Development and promotion of the visitor economy • Commercialisation of ideas, and accelerating routes to market • Growing the local social economy • Businesses to grow their overseas trading • Decarbonisation and improving the natural environment • The implementation of resilience infrastructure and nature-based solutions from natural hazards • And encourage start up, expansion, diversification or scale up of businesses within rural areas The ERYC Business Support Services team are currently implementing their delivery model and wanting to be responsive and continually develop and adapt their services in line with the ever-changing economic landscape as well as the needs of the business community. Support for businesses will consist of various services including, 1-2-1 adviser and specialist support, access to the ERYC business resources portal, financial assistance where deemed appropriate, as well as workshops and events. The workshop and events programme is being jointly run by ERYC and Hull City Council to give access to all businesses from both authority areas.

Timescales 1. Tender advertised Friday 1st September 2023 2. Final submission of queries and questions regarding tender Noon Wednesday 13th September 2023 3. Closing date for submissions 5pm Tuesday 19th September 2023 4. Scoring of initial submissions Wednesday 20th September 2023 5. Potential presentations by shortlisted applicants (if applicable) w/c Monday 25th September 2023 6. Notification of successful applicants w/c Monday 2nd October 2023 7. Inception meetings and agreement of approach w/c Monday 2nd October 2023 8. Delivery of contract Between October 2023 - March 2025

Questions about the specification should be directed to Josh Elliott-Shircore via email [email protected] by Noon Wednesday 13th September 2023 If you are interested in this opportunity responses should be sent to Josh Elliot-Shircore via email [email protected] by 5pm Tuesday 19th September 2023

Please see the full brief attached for more information.

Attachments: The full brief Appendix 1: Award criteria Appendix 2: Scoring criteria Appendix 3: ERYC terms and conditions

Additional information: Budget / contract length Due to current levels of funding, we are unable to consider submissions with a project cost above £30,000 + VAT (inclusive of any additional costs). Venues and associated costs will be managed by our business support team's and there will be no requirement for the winning bidder to incorporate any of these additional costs. Contract for the work will be up to March 2025 in line with present UKSPF or earlier if demand exceeds expectations or funding ceases. Proposal Requirements Response should include as a minimum: Knowledge & experience • Details of up-to-date experience of individual/agency, that substantiate you meet the requirements of the opportunity • Name of key developers/deliverer/s and Curriculum Vitae/s of identified parties. Please note, sub-contractors will be accepted and should be identified where available within the tender response. Please provide the hourly rate per role. • Evidence to demonstrate a comprehension knowledge of the subject matter and how you maintain a consistent and up to date knowledge base. • Proposed initial workshop content ideas, style of delivery with key practical actions for the business to undertake during or following the workshop(s) and examples of handouts, workshop materials and resources that would be made available to delegates. • Examples of previous delivery of similar work. Project Management skills • Explain how you will maintain consistent and relevant delivery of information • Evidence of how you would manage the portfolio of work within timescales and need for flexibility of delivery • Availability of time for the undertaking of this contract. • Explanation of your own present workshop evaluation and improvement process Price Please include in the proposal a breakdown of the following costs: • Hourly rate/s to be applied.

Additional information to be included (this does not form part of the scoring of the tender response) In line with the UK Subsidy Control Regime, our business support programme is offered under Minimal Financial Assistance (MFA) as detailed in the Subsidy Control Act 2022. It is therefore our responsibility to ensure a true market value of all public funded activities entered into by our business community are correctly recorded and issued to each business beneficiary. For this reason, as we offer attendance at our workshops at below market rate we request as part of this submission that you also provide a true market value, hourly delegate rate for a typical social media marketing workshop which you would charge if arranging the full development and delivery including venue etc.