Business and management consultancy and related services

Tender description

The appointment of Regional Delivery Partners to provide Enhanced International Trade Advisory (EITA) Services including local support across England aimed at helping UK businesses to internationalise through exporting. The current International Trade Advisory (ITA) Service is delivered by seven delivery partners over nine English regions. The DIT is procuring five (5) new contracts to provide an ‘Enhanced’ service that will ensure service continuity and make pragmatic improvements that will substantially improve the value delivered and respond to the ambition set out in the Government’s Export Strategy of 2018. The five (5) regions are: North of England, the Midlands, London, the South and East and the South and West. Each region will be procured as a separate lot. Estimated total contract value range is GBP 84 m to GBP 127 m (excluding TUPE costs and inflation). The upper value includes the 12-month extension and deployment of optional services subject to funding and performance. The regional delivery partner for the Northern Powerhouse will be required to provide the EITA service on behalf of the DIT to high potential exporter businesses in the North of England (North East, North West,Yorkshire and the Humber). The regional delivery partner for the Midlands Engine will be required to provide the EITA service on behalf of the DIT to high potential exporter businesses in the Midlands (East Midlands and West Midlands, excludes Northamptonshire). The regional delivery partner for London will be required to provide the EITA service on behalf of the DIT to high potential exporter businesses in London. The regional delivery partner for the South and East will be required to provide the EITA service on behalf of the DIT to high potential exporter businesses in the South and East (East of England and South East (England), noting that the regional boundary differs from the NUTS definition. The region specifically includes the following LEP regions (https://www.lepnetwork.net/about-leps/location-map/): Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire Thames Valley, Greater Cambridgeshire and Greater Peterborough, New Anglia, Oxfordshire, South East and South East Midlands. The regional delivery partner for the South and West will be required to provide the EITA service on behalf of the DIT to high potential exporter businesses in the South and West (South West and part of the South East regions of England), noting that the regional boundary differs from the NUTS definition. The region specifically includes the following LEP regions (https://www.lepnetwork.net/about-leps/location-map/): Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Dorset, G first (Gloucestershire), Swindon and Wiltshire, Coast to Capital, Enterprise M3, Solent, West of England, Heart of the South West,Thames Valley Berkshire.