Section one: Contracting authority/entity
one.1) Name and addresses
Aberdeenshire Council
Woodhill House, Westburn Road
Aberdeen
AB16 5GB
CPSSprocurement@aberdeencity.gov.uk
Telephone
+44 1467539600
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKM50 - Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire
Internet address(es)
Main address
http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk
Buyer's address
https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA00232
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
UK Shared Prosperity Fund Feasibility Studies - Framework Agreement
Reference number
000-JLRK8663
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 71241000 - Feasibility study, advisory service, analysis
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
Aberdeenshire Council has secured funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) to provide support to the development of community owned assets through the Communities and Place Improving Places Programme.
This project has been identified as a need within the UKSPF Aberdeenshire Investment Plan, in response to a recognition that in order to secure external funding from Public, Charitable and Private sectors including the UKSPF, community-led capital and revenue projects require a detailed feasibility study which may cover several specialist elements.
Applications to the challenge fund element of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and previous funding programmes have provided further evidence that this project is needed, to support the leaders of these projects to explore and evidence the feasibility of their proposed projects and enterprises.
Many projects are not at the point where all aspects of feasibility have been resolved, and so lack the underpinning detail that is required by an external funder, a crucial requirement for each project’s realisation and sustainability.
This Framework is designed to support and help community-led capital and revenue projects to establish credible business plans, successfully apply for project funding and develop financially sustainable operations in the longer term, both preventing the loss of crucial facilities and developing new resources for rural communities in Aberdeenshire.
Section six. Complementary information
six.6) Original notice reference
Notice number: 2023/S 000-031519
Section seven. Changes
seven.1) Information to be changed or added
seven.1.2) Text to be corrected in the original notice
Section number
IV.2.7
Place of text to be modified
Conditions for opening of tenders
Instead of
Date
27 November 2023
Local time
12:00pm
Read
Date
4 December 2023
Local time
12:00pm
seven.2) Other additional information
Extension of deadline for tenders