High Growth Ventures Specialist Business Support Framework

The purpose of this ITT is to appoint multiple suppliers to a 5-lot framework, each lot may have up to 5 suppliers, to deliver entrepreneurial specialist business support to Scottish Enterprise’s High Growth Ventures (HGV) companies.

The framework is expected to be in place for 2 years with the option to extend for a further 12 months if required.

The main aim of this framework is to support and accelerate early-stage high growth companies aligned to the economic opportunities and national programmes above, with their journey towards closing significant investment to scale. Activity will focus on SE’s High Growth Ventures (HGV) companies, clients from the High Growth Spinout Programme (HGSP), and early-stage Account Managed Scale-Ups (AM Scale Ups).

For Lot 2 intense 1:1 support is required in those early stages to enable companies to prepare for investment and attract the right investors at the right time. Providers must be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of helping early-stage companies raise significant investment, and of working at Board level with these types of start-ups.

03/08/2022 - THIS IS A CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE

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consortium to sort out their respective duties and liabilities amongst each other. For

administrative purposes, any associated documentation will be sent to the nominated lead

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III exclusion grounds; the relevant part of Section IV selection criteria; and Part V (if

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declare whether there are grounds for their exclusion. This may be requested at the

selection stage or prior to the subcontractor commencing work on the contract.