Financial consultancy services

Tender description

East Herts District Council are currently seeking tenders for the provision of financial and non-financial support to businesses. The tender documents can be accessed from the My Tenders area of the Supply Hertfordshire website and selecting the View Details button of this project. Please note the deadline for returns and allow sufficient time to make your return as late returns will not be permitted. Any questions relating to this tender should be made via correspondence on the website and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above. East Herts District Council has recently been awarded ERDF funding to provide small businesses with a mixture of financial support through small capital grants and non-financial support through mentoring, networking events and seminars focussed on themes useful to small businesses. The Council is inviting suppliers to fulfil the delivery obligations of this project. The supplier must engage with a minimum of 115 enterprises that leads on to providing financial support via small grants to 30 enterprises; and non-financial support through a range of mentoring, network events and business seminars to a minimum of 25 additional enterprises. East Herts based businesses targeted must be engaged in either the sectors of bio science, social enterprise or maintenance, repairs and operations (MRO) at Stansted Airport. The contract runs from 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2023. The engagement and support given to enterprises is eligible only between these two dates. There is however an extension period to the project of 30 September 2023 for businesses to provide evidence of defrayed expenditure relating to their grant.