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Specialist Business Support Services

Descriptions

UK Research and Innovation ("UKRI"), will shortly launch a procurement to appoint a supplier to provide specialist business support services for consultancy, commercial coaching and specialist training for business founders, including developing a high-performing team. The services would be delivered to third party startups that are incubated in STFC's Programmes.

The outcome of these services is to help STFC to increase and accelerate the growth of UK Deep tech start-ups and so deliver a return to the UK economy and support the UK Government's Growth Mission.

The user is STFC's Incubation Programmes team, who would manage the supplier(s) to deliver procured services to incubated startups. These specialist services are essential to enable the STFC team's ability to deliver our objectives.

This Contract is intended to be a 2-year agreement with the option to extend by a further 2 years with an indicative budget of £392,000.00 excluding VAT for the full duration.

Interested suppliers are to refer to the Engagement section of this notice for further details of the preliminary market engagement process being undertaken.

Engagement

UK Research and Innovation, alongside UK Shared Business Services Limited will be hosting a Microsoft Teams meeting to further discuss this requirement before it goes live to the open market. This Market Engagement Day will be held on Tuesday 9th September 2025, time TBC. The session will last approximately 2 hours. In order to book a slot on this meeting, please can you provide the following information to CoreServices@uksbs.co.uk, marking the email FTO Abbie Cousens and referencing our unique reference number of CSP25191. Please note organisations will be limited to four attendees. - Attendee(s) Name - Attendee(s) Email Address - Organisation Name This notice aims to inform potential suppliers of our intention to procure and our upcoming supplier engagement event. The Contracting Authority is utilising this preliminary market engagement notice to: (a) make the market aware of the upcoming requirement (b) to better understand the market landscape of suppliers who would be able to deliver this requirement and (c) request that any interested suppliers confirm their interest in by Wednesday 3rd September 2025. Following the session, we will look to issue a market engagement questionnaire to those suppliers who have expressed interest to better inform our requirements. Any information supplied as part of preliminary market engagement shall not place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process.

Timeline

Published Date :

20th Aug 2025 5 months ago

Deadline :

3rd Sep 2025 5 months ago

Contract Start :

1st Jan 2026

Contract End :

31st Dec 2027

CPV Codes

Keywords

skills workshops

team coaching

skills training

life coaching

career guidance

performance coaching

corporate restructuring

workflow optimisation

business analysis

corporate training

professional training

business mentoring

management systems

process improvement

personal coaching

executive coaching

technical skill training

workforce education

operational support

business planning

leadership development

executive development

employee development

learning course delivery

strategy coordination

corporate advisory

vocational instruction

organisational development

job competency development

capacity building programs

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Status :

Closed

Procedure :

N/A

Suitable for SME :

Yes

Nationwide :

No

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Tender Progress :

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Details

Notice Type :

PIN

Tender Identifier :

IT-378-246-T: 2024 - 001

Tenderbase ID :

310724019

Low Value :

£100K

High Value :

£1000K

Buyer Information

Address :

Liverpool Merseyside , Merseyside , L13 0BQ

Website :

N/A

Procurement Contact

Name :

Tina Smith

Phone :

0151 252 3243

Email :

tina.smith@shared-ed.ac.uk