International Equity Finance Licenses

***This tender requirement was abandoned prior to a contract award decision because no compliant bids were received****

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Introduction

The Business Growth directorate holds policy responsibility to ensure the small business finance markets in the UK are functioning correctly, with some of our work relating to private equity markets. The Business Growth Analysis and International division provides key analysis on equity finance deals, trends, and characteristics. In order to properly facilitate this objective, international comparison is necessary in order to best equip UK businesses and markets for the global market. We are already provided access to UK data from a separate UK-focused platform, however we require this additional access to this additional platform to receive information on global equity, especially the USA.

Requirements

To be delivered are 3 user licences for access to platform. This procurement would lead to 3 licences being provided to BGAI, which will allow download of data in CSV or Excel file, and also the appropriate training for platform usage and best practices. Training will be expected to be provided year on year.

Key outputs from the platform will be quantitative data on investment deals, as well as specific company information for high growth companies operating in the UK and internationally (US data essential). The platform should enable users to query this data by criteria including location, sector, technology theme, size, company stage and type of investment. The platform also should allow users to sum company and investment data over specific time periods to produce aggregate statistics, the time period that the information should cover from is 2010. The international comparability of the data means it could be used to analyse the level of equity investment in UK against other countries. This will enable BGAI to identify areas where the UK has a large share of the global market and a potential comparative advantage.

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