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Enterprise Hub - Business Start-Up Advisers

Everton Development Trust Published 17 Mar 2016 Contracts Finder

key details

Statuscomplete
Category (CPV) 80000000
RegionNorth West
Deadline16 Apr 2016
Contract start28 Apr 2016
Contract end30 Nov 2018
Procedureopen
SME suitableYes
OCIDocds-b5fd17-72a0a5c9-adc9-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b

Awards (2)

This procurement was awarded to 2 suppliers. Values shown are per-award; the notice total is ·.

SupplierValueDateStatus
Collective Edge Ltd shared £150,000 27 Apr 2016 active
One Economy Ltd shared £150,000 27 Apr 2016 active

description

Enterprise Hub (EH) is a comprehensive entrepreneurship promotion and business support programme, which will foster the creation of new enterprises from pre start to early stage businesses. Providing assistance to 6360 potential-entrepreneurs and helping create 1272 new business ventures. The Enterprise Hub will reach and provide high quality business brokerage and business support services to a diverse customer profile ; resulting in the creation of high value SMEs and social businesses across all sectors and providing a simplified route for customers to access the support when and how they need it.

The Enterprise Hub is a consortium of partner organisations of which EDT is one

EDT’s delivery strategy consists of utilising a multi-disciplinary enterprise team; currently comprising a Project Director, Senior Business Adviser and Finance and MI Manager. We are seeking to complete this team by looking to work with up to four (4) delivery sub –contractors (associate organisations or individuals) to provide business start-up support and enterprise engagement services; two (2) Business Advisers and two (2) Community Enterprise Facilitators. This notice relates ONLY to the procurement of Business Advisers.

Business Advisers will, in their role in EDT’s Enterprise Hub team, support individuals to:

Prepare a business plan, cash flow, and personal budget
Marketing
Market research / Competitor Analysis
Sales Forecasting
Advice on appropriate insurances
Advice on appropriate premises
Staffing requirements
Legal requirements and Company Registration
Access to Finance – signposting and supporting to access a loan/grant fund (if required) to supply a start-up financial package

A minimum of 12 hours of appropriately evidenced adviser support, a full business plan and evidence of start-up are required.

The complex nature of exclusion that people face requires additional investment to equalise opportunity in starting their own business. We are seeking Suppliers to engage with people from the following demographic profiles in Liverpool City Region:

BME groups
Disabled people
NEET young people
Long term unemployed people
Lone parents
Returners to the labour market
Older people
People in receipt of benefits
People with language, literacy or numeracy issues
Parents and carers
People with limited access to public transport or living in deprived wards
People with lack of access to finance and business networks
People with poor credit rationing and access to business finance
Any person who is experiencing social exclusion from mainstream service provision as a result of their personal circumstances

The target beneficiary group are people who face a range of barriers to enterprise, such as:

Low confidence and self-esteem
Unemployment, under-employed, unstable or temporary employment
Low educational qualifications
Lone Parents
Benefit dependency
  • Ex-Offenders

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notice history

1 notice published against this procurement.

PublishedTypeRegimeNotice
19 Sept 2017 Award (award) · 1d2783e3-5d1c-49dd-9afb-d18692885447-171536

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