Trade and Investment Support for British Business in Slovenia

Tender description

The Department for International Trade is looking for a private organisation to deliver services relating to UK's trade and investment activities on its behalf in Ljubljana, Slovenia and, working alongside the British Embassy Ljubljana, represent the UK effectively in engaging with the business community and Slovene government through private engagement, public communications and outreach events, supporting the UK's values and interests. The successful bidder will deliver challenging annual Export Win targets, including through analysing the market and designing targeted interventions, and work proactively to support UK businesses looking to enter the Slovene market. The successful bidder will also work with the Embassy proactively to tackle market access barriers, analysis of the impact of different barriers and delivering effective action, with others, to address those barriers, and to support the biggest UK investments in Slovenia. As part of its offer, the successful bidder will provide a dedicated Business Consultant with responsibility for UK-Slovenia trade. He/she will work alongside DIT Country Directors in Central, Eastern Europe, including the Western Balkans, to promote UK trade and investment. Interested organisations will be expected to be able to demonstrate they can meet the following eligibility criteria. 1) Do you have experience of successfully organising and delivering trade and investment missions over a number of years? 2) Will your organisation be able to credibly represent HMG and DIT effectively in discussions with the Slovene Government and wider business community as an independent body without any real or perceived conflict of issues arising? 3) Do you have experience of delivering a full range of business activities, from trade missions, export campaigns outreach activities, media interviews and effective use of social media, communications to the business community (eg through newsletters), production of strategic analysis of market conditions, risks and opportunities, work on market access barriers including analysis of the impact of different barriers and effective action, with others, to address those barriers? 4) Do you have strong existing networks across the Slovene Government, exporters and importers, investors and the media? For expressions of Interest please download and complete the EoI form in the attachments and send to the below email address by 5:00pm GMT on 22.03.2021. commercialbpo@trade.gov.uk