North West Industrial Cluster Plan Delivery

Tender description

The Local Enterprise Partnership (The LEP) leads the growth of the Cheshire and Warrington economy through a powerful partnership between the private, public, and voluntary sectors. Our ambition is to be the UK's healthiest, most sustainable, inclusive and growing economy. Working in collaboration with local government, businesses, educational institutes and other public, private and community sector organisations, we keep Cheshire and Warrington firmly on the map. The LEP, on behalf of the North West Net Zero Hub, and the Net Zero North West industrial decarbonisation consortium, is looking to procure consultancy services from an individual or small team to put operational plans in place to set up a new industry body to co-ordinate and facilitate the delivery of the £30 billion North West Industrial Cluster Decarbonisation Plan. The successful bidder will be required to deliver services in accordance with all tender documents and the contract to be placed with the successful bidder. Tenderers are requested to study the specification in detail and ensure that the specified requirements can be met and thus your understanding of our requirements is reflected in your Pricing Schedule return. The contract is expected to commence in February 2024 and take approximately 9 months to complete. Following commission, the contractor will produce a project tracker for this piece of work, including key reporting milestones and expected activities and regularly update this to facilitate monitoring. An interim report is expected in July 2024 to support project reporting requirements. Deadline for queries has been extended to 5pm, 6th of February 2024. Please see attached below North West Industrial Cluster Stage 1 report that will address some of the queries raised. Updated timeline of activities Invitation to Tender (ITT) Live - 25th January 2024 Deadline for queries - 8th January 2024 Responses to queries - 9th February 2024 - 10:00 Tender submission deadline - 9th February 2024 - 16:00 Evaluation of submissions - 10th to 13th February 2024 Interviews (if necessary) - 14th February 2024 Bidders notified of contract award - w/c 19th February 2024 Contract to start - w/c 19th February 2024