Business and management consultancy and related services

Tender description

Tower Hamlets Council (the Council) is seeking tenders for training and consultancy support in 2 specialist areas of work for the benefit of Tower Hamlets businesses. These 2 areas of work are: — Support for increasing the marketing capacity of retail businesses; and — Support for businesses in any sector to be able to supply goods and services through contracts which have been the subject of a procurement exercise. What activity in these 2 areas of work has in common is that success on the part of the businesses supported will increase turnover. This in turn will tend to improve business prospects and lead to beneficial effects generally in the local economy. These 2 areas of work are however the subject of 2 separate initiatives run by Tower Hamlets Council: respectively the ‘Retail Marketing’ Initiative and the ‘Supply Tower Hamlets’ initiative. Looking at support for retail marketing in isolation, there are 2 aspects to the support work required, as follows: — Consultancy support for retail business marketing; and — Provision of an online platform to support the marketing activities of retailers which receive consultancy support. There are therefore 3 areas of work, each of which is the subject of a different lot, as follows: — Lot 1 — Provision of Retail Marketing Consultancy Support (part of the Retail Marketing initiative); — Lot 2 — Provision of Retailers Online Marketing Platform (part of the Retail Marketing initiative); — Lot 3 — Provision of Tendering Support (the Supply Tower Hamlets initiative).