Business Gateway Specialist Workshop and Expert Help Services

Tender description

Award of the contract for Business Gateway Core and Specialist Workshops and Expert Help Services (RC-CPU-21-187). The Council is seeking to contract with a single, suitably qualified and experienced service provider, who will organise and deliver, through core or subcontracted staff, the following range of services which are client demand led:- - Business Gateway Core Start Up Workshops - Business Gateway Core Business Base Workshops - Business Gateway Local Specialist Workshops - Specialist Expert Help Advisory Consultations - Specialist Expert Help Surgeries COVID-19 has changed the way that we engage with our local businesses. Supporting the recovery of our local economy is a key priority and our workshops, surgeries and expert help are important elements of assistance available to support local business sectors and the wider community to move on from the impacts of COVID-19. In the short term due to current COVID-19 constraints we have introduced local webinars, on-line surgeries and tutorials to provide new ways for us to provide advice and support to businesses through the pandemic. It is expected that any 1-2-1 specialist advice will be provided remotely through MS Teams, Zoom or equivalent platform, however this may change over the period of the contract depending on the restrictions and workshops and expert services will take place within a premise.