Education and training services

Tender description

This procurement is to establish a growth service that through a prime contractor/consortia arrangement provides the following: — an inclusive growth service, — an inward investment scheme, — a skills service, — a grants administration service. The contract is to appoint a single company or prime contractor/consortia type arrangement to support the CPCA in delivering the local industrial strategy by way of 4 specific areas of growth. These include: — an inclusive growth service, to engage our highest potential growth firms to better support them to accelerate their growth, increase their capacity and capability for growth, sustain their period within growth or all 3, — an inward investment service, to extend our reach into key global markets, to engage and persuade overseas firms to locate into our economy or invest in our strategic projects to increase our employment space, develop our transport infrastructure or establish a new university, — A Skills Service, to provide an effective brokerage between young talent and those retraining or progressing in a career, our employers and our skills providers, to improve the supply of skills to enable growth, — a capital or innovation and re-location grant, to co-invest with small firms in the cost of contracting experts to help: —— to fund all businesses, especially traditional firms, to grow through organic expansion, paying for equipment and expanding premises; —— to provide access to R&D funding from UK and EU agencies for new product growth and increased productivity; —— to provide access to fast-track planning, partners and investment for new build employment space. These service will be delivered in each of our 3 sub-economies in a tailored manner to better spread growth more evenly across our total economy.