Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services

Tender description

This Pre-Qualification Questionnaire is for the provision of a Fund Managers Service to The Scottish Government. Scottish Government, through its SME Holding Fund Manager, is seeking to competitively select up to 6 organisations to become fund managers, with at least 1 fund manager for micro-finance, at least 1 for debt, and at least 1 for early stage equity. The responses to this questionnaire will be used to select 12 potential suppliers that will be taken to the Invitation to Tender stage of this 2-stage process. Objective. The key objective of this Contract Agreement is to consistently deliver a service that: — meets agreed quality standards; — delivers value for money; — meets a wide range of customer requirement; — supports ministerial policies relating to access to Finance; — consistently delivers ‘best practice’ in relation to Financial Fund Management; — delivers continuous improvement throughout the term of the Contract Agreement; — provides a flexible service in response to the changing requirements of the Scottish Government; — has a track record in both terms of Investment and Portfolio Management; — is open and transparent; — is innovative; — is commercially aware; — addresses market failures and focuses on addressing gaps in the provision of finance to SMEs with growth and export potential; — achieves an overall leverage target of 4 GBP per 1 GBP grant from the SME Holding Fund; — achieve the SME Holding fund's target of at least 1950 jobs in the third to fifth year following investments. Note: the buyer is using PCS-Tender to carry out this procurement process. Please note this is a separate website and if you are not already registered, registration will be required. To access PCS-Tender, record your interest in this notice and access the tender documentation please visit https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk and search for project Code 5348 under PQQs Open to All Suppliers. Please use the Search/Filter function, then select Project Code from the drop-down. Please note that once you have expressed interest in the PQQ it will move to your My PQQs area. For further information on using PCS-Tender, please read the Supplier Response Guide: https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/esop/pts-host/public/pts/supplierhelppage/PCS-TSupplierResponseGuide.pdf If you have already registered on Public Contracts Scotland and PCS-Tender and paired your accounts you can access PCS-Tender through your Public Contracts Scotland Control Panel.