Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Business Growth Company
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, 72 Market Street
Ely
CB7 4LS
Contact
Miss Chantel Allott
chantel.allott@cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.gov.uk
Telephone
+44 1480277180
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKH1 - East Anglia
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.gov.uk
Buyer's address
https://cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.gov.uk
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
one.5) Main activity
Economic and financial affairs
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Growth Service for Businesses in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Contract
Reference number
DN577040
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 66000000 - Financial and insurance services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
This procurement is to establish a Growth service that through a prime contractor/consortia arrangement
provides the following:
• an inclusive coaching service to support resilience and growth,
• an inward investment scheme,
• a skills service,
• a grants and equity investment administrative service.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)
Value excluding VAT: £26,840,000
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
- 98000000 - Other community, social and personal services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKH1 - East Anglia
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
This procurement is to appoint an organisation to administer — a capital Growth Investment Fund of grants and
equity investments, as well as an innovation and relocation grant.
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 four 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 three.
• 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 growth or innovation and relocation grant:
To co-invest with small firms in the cost of contracting experts to help either through GBP 50 000 grants or
equity investments:
— 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 three subeconomies in a tailored manner to better spread growth
more evenly across our total economy.
Changes since the previous notice
The CPCA is procuring this contract as agent for the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Business Growth
Company (CPBGC) which is a wholly own subsidiary of the CPCA established for the sole purpose of delivering
this contract. The CPCA is in the process of incorporating the CPBGC. The contract will be entered into by the successful bidder and the CPBGC. The CPCA will provide ad-hoc support to the CPBGC during the
procurement process and during the term of the contract.
Also, a new requirement for FCA Authorisation has been added into the SSQ stage.
In addition, the procurement timescales have been extended to address the current commercial challenges
surrounding the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Finally, we are inviting bidders to consider in their response how they will tailor the delivery of those services (as
set out in the existing specification) to take into account the current economic situation and any future, unknown
business challenges the local businesses may face in the future caused by the pandemic. Further information is
set out in the adaptability and future agility document.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Price
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: No
two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: Yes
Identification of the project
The Sills Talent Apprenticeship and Recruitment (STAR) hub, Growth Coaching Services, Inward Investment Services.
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
Competitive procedure with negotiation
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No
four.2) Administrative information
four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number: 2020/S 072-173477
Section five. Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded: Yes
five.2) Award of contract
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
2 February 2021
five.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 2
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
GEG SERVICES LIMITED
Birmingham
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKG31 - Birmingham
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot: £26,840,000
Section six. Complementary information
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
High Court
London
Country
United Kingdom