Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

Tender description

SELEP, the biggest of 39 LEPs nationally in terms of geography and numbers of businesses, is a public/private sector partnership tasked with supporting economic growth — in the shape of jobs and homes — across the areas of East Sussex, Essex, Kent, Medway, Southend and Thurrock. Critical to this is the successful delivery of its responsibilities around the Local Growth Fund. SELEP will oversee a programme worth at least 488 000 000 GBP up to 2021 and the technical evaluation of schemes is therefore of the utmost importance to the LEP's operation. The South East Local Enterprise Partnership (SELEP) requires consultancy services for the role of Independent Technical Evaluator (ITE) primarily to work with SELEP project promoters to obtain formal sign-off of business cases by the SELEP Board to enable funding to continue to flow. The contract will be for three (3) years with options to extend for 2 further periods of up to twelve (12) months. 4.1. SELEP wish to appoint an Independent Technical Evaluator whose role will be to: — Manage the agreed process for business case assessment that has been provided with this tender, whilst considering opportunities to further embed and improve the process alongside the scheme promoters, the SELEP Secretariat and the Accountable Body for the SELEP; — Assess business cases at different stages of development to check continued viability and deliverability in accordance with the programme and the requirements of the SELEP Assurance Framework. The ITE programme list provided with this tender sets out the expected programme of business cases to be assessed from the current round of Local Growth Funding. If there is a further round of funding for business cases awarded to the SELEP, this would be in addition to those already identified in the programme list; — Work with all SELEP scheme promoters to obtain formal sign-off of business cases by the SELEP Accountability Board.