Procurement Opportunity to deliver "Social Media Marketing" Workshops

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:

Through providing a wraparound business support service our key Investment priorities are, to support:

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

Questions about the specification should be directed to Josh Elliott-Shircore via email Josh.shircore@eastriding.gov.uk by Noon Wednesday 13th September 2023 If you are interested in this opportunity responses should be sent to Josh Elliot-Shircore via email Josh.shircore@eastriding.gov.uk 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

Project Management skills

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.