Scope
Reference
Sector_Investment_2025
Description
Enterprise Cheshire and Warrington (ECW), a council-owned organisation, works alongside elected leaders to make the region the healthiest, most sustainable, inclusive, and growing place in the country.
We collaborate with the three local councils, industry leaders, and community partners to shape economic and transport strategies, deliver skills training and business support, and ensure that the voice of business is heard in local decision-making.
Through its Marketing Cheshire division, ECW also champions the region as an outstanding place to live, work, invest, study, and visit.
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.
This procurement exercise is being conducted as a below threshold open tender. The tender documents comprise this ITT document, including associated Appendices and Annexes.
Cheshire and Warrington is on the government's devolution priority programme, expected to form a new Combined Authority in Spring 2026. It is also a member of The Great North pan regional mayoral partnership, which replaced NP11. The area has recently published its Sustainable and Inclusive Economic Strategy (SIES 2025-2045), which sets out the importance of key sectors and clusters to driving transformational growth opportunities, and makes a commitment to set out a roadmap to securing these opportunities through its future 10 year Local Growth Plan which will form the delivery plan for the SIES.
The government's National Industrial Strategy introduces a new taxonomy for nationally significant growth-driving sectors, and highlights key strengths within Cheshire and Warrington, including as part of a Supercluster for life sciences, digital and technologies with neighbouring areas. Existing devolved areas such as neighbouring city regions have been working with government on a series of sector plans, which update their understanding of key sector and cluster growth opportunities, including interlinkages and dual-purpose properties across diverse sectors, and set out how the area will secure those opportunities.
Therefore, Enterprise Cheshire & Warrington (ECW), working with and on behalf of, Cheshire and Warrington Local Authority Growth Directors, requires a set of sector evidence bases and investment proposition content for priority high-growth industries, as well as a baseline refresh of the wider sector evidence base.
This work will form Phase 1 of a programme to update the Cheshire and Warrington economic, spatial and investment evidence base as well as providing quality and impactful content for The Great North Summit and UKREIIF in May 2026. Further phases will produce the full Sector Plans for the transformational sectors that will drive growth.
Total value (estimated)
- £80,000 excluding VAT
- £96,000 including VAT
Above the relevant threshold
Contract dates (estimated)
- 27 January 2026 to 30 April 2026
- 3 months, 5 days
Main procurement category
Services
CPV classifications
- 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
Contract locations
- UK - United Kingdom
Participation
Particular suitability
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
- Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
Submission
Enquiry deadline
7 January 2026, 11:59pm
Tender submission deadline
19 January 2026, 9:00am
Submission address and any special instructions
Tenders may be submitted electronically
No
Languages that may be used for submission
English
Award decision date (estimated)
23 January 2026
Award criteria
| Name | Type | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Technical Merit (Quality) | Quality | 75% |
| Value for money | Cost | 25% |
Other information
Conflicts assessment prepared/revised
Yes
Procedure
Procedure type
Open procedure
Special regime
Concession
Documents
Associated tender documents
ITT - Sector Evidence and Investor Narratives.docx
ITT - Sector Evidence and Investor Narratives.pdf
Standard_Services_Agreement_and_T-Cs (4).pdf
Contracting authority
ENTERPRISE CHESHIRE AND WARRINGTON
- Companies House: 04453576
- Public Procurement Organisation Number: PTVR-4158-ZHYR
Wyvern House Floor 1, Wyvern House
Winsford
CW7 1AH
United Kingdom
Region: UKD63 - Cheshire West and Chester
Organisation type: Public undertaking (commercial organisation subject to public authority oversight)