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Social Economy Growth

West Midlands Combined Authority

Awarded
services
SME-friendly

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Key details

Contracting authority
Region
West Midlands
Delivery: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Contract value
£808,645ex VAT
Submissions closed
8 August 2023
Published
10 July 2023

Procurement

Contract period
1 March 2024 - 31 March 2025
1 years
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
CPV classifications
  • 79411100 Business development consultancy services

What happened

West Midlands Combined Authority awarded this contract to Enterprise Nation Ltd | Locality | Aston University | School for Social Entrepreneurs worth £256,526 on 3 Nov 2023. The contract runs until 31 Mar 2025.

Description

The objective of this programme is to manage this grant to increase the business skills and confidence of the participants to enable them to build sustainable social enterprises (or trading arms of charities) capable of growth. The programmes are designed to enable growth in the social economy sector and their success will be measured through increases in participant business skills, trading revenue, volunteer support, confidence in taking on more social investment and securing more public/ private sector contracts.

To deliver this programme to participants, "Provider" organisations (i.e., the awarded suppliers) will be appointed through this tender who have demonstrated they have the necessary experience, skills and understanding in grant management, recruiting participants, maintaining peer networks and reporting data on KPIs in real time.

We are looking for multiple business support grant administrators to deliver this programme under different Lots, the Business Support providers need to demonstrate their ability to support trading Social Economy organisations in the West Midlands, who are at varying stages of development.

Awarded suppliers (4)

Suppliers
  • Enterprise Nation Ltd
  • Locality
  • Aston University
  • School for Social Entrepreneurs
Award value
£256,526
Award date
3 November 2023

Contact

Address
16 Summer Lane, 16 Summer Lane, Birmingham, B19 3TR
Contact name
Procurement Team

Identifiers

Buyer reference
04787-2023
Notice ID
308cd477-4087-4d23-bd21-8d47521893c6-737255
OCID
ocds-b5fd17-c2c0b501-5eb0-4ae5-a236-40b4a0b5832c

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