PR2080 - Energy Specialist Support - Green Recovery and Innovation Programme (GRIP)

1. About us 1.1. The South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership (SEMLEP) has a central role in determining local economic priorities and securing investment to support business innovation and growth. To do this we link together the public and private sectors with academia to coordinate housing, transport, commercial development, energy infrastructure and raise workforce skills, in line with employers' needs, for the benefit of the wider economic area. We prioritise driving up productivity, creating jobs and promoting long-term, sustainable growth. 1.2. SEMLEP has three main roles in delivering strategic economic growth. 1.2.1. Setting the strategic direction for the area's future economic opportunities, challenges and priorities. 1.2.2. Direct intervention to increase growth. We are responsible for securing and overseeing the spend of two main sources of growth funding as well as coordinating business support through our Growth Hub 1.2.3. Facilitating growth by convening partners to assist cross-boundary collaboration on short and long-term economic issues. 2. Background 2.1. GRIP is funded by North Northamptonshire Council via the UK Government's Community Renewal Fund for a project across North and West Northamptonshire. 2.2. The programme will provide support to 100 businesses in North and West Northamptonshire that are looking at ways to grow, improve productivity and increase the sustainability of their business. This will be achieved by provid...the application form is Part A. Questions 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7 are pass / reject. If you fail these questions, your application will be rejected. Stage Two - Award Criteria If your application passes on "Part A" it will progress to "Part B" that is the Award Criteria. The applications will be scored under the Award Criteria set out in Annex 1. Stage Three - Interview If your application achieves up to the top three scoring bids in "Part B" then you may be invited in for an interview to answer questions about your application. This would account for 15% of the overall score. 7. RFQ responses Please note that your response must include: - SEMLEP's RFQ Application Form fully completed - Any additional information you wish to provide to support your response. Please keep additional information to no more than 3 A4 pages - All prices quoted shall be fixed and firm and shall apply for the full duration of the contract. - All costs are deemed to include expenses and any other on-cost. - All prices quoted shall be inclusive of Value Added Tax (VAT) - The quotation response must be on SEMLEP's Request for Quotation Application Form - Any queries regarding completion of the response please email [email protected] or contact us on 01234 436100 - Please send your completed forms and any supporting information electronically to [email protected] with the name of the tender in the subject header. Please note we do not want hard copies to be sent in the post.