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Create Growth Programme

West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Buyer Contact Info

Buyer Name: West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Buyer Address: Wellington House, 40-50 Wellington Street, Leeds, UKE42, LS1 2DE, United Kingdom

Contact Name: Sukhninder Kaur

Contact Email: commercialteam@westyorks-ca.gov.uk

Status
active
Procedure
open
Value
1168750.0 GBP
Gross: 1402500 GBP
Published
28 May 2025, 07:45
Deadline
23 Jun 2025, 11:00
Contract Start
n/a
Contract End
n/a
Category
services
CPV
98000000 - Other community, social and personal services
Region
n/a
Awarded To
n/a
Official Source
Open Find a Tender

Description

Funded by the DCMS, the Create Growth Programme (CGP) aims to stimulate investment into the creative industries (CI), through the provision of three complementary strands of activity: The CGP comprises three complementary strands: A) business support targeted at the creative industries; B) access to finance; C) investor capacity-building activities. Strand B (access to finance) is separately funded by Government, and is being delivered by Innovate UK through tranches of grant funding and innovation competition funding rounds that will be delivered concurrently with this tender (details of which will be announced in April / May 2025). The successful tenderer will be expected to deliver strand A (business support), and collaborate with Innovate UK on strand B (finance) and strand C (investor capacity building) in West Yorkshire, while collaborating with Innovate UK, to enhance West Yorkshire businesses' access to the available funding. As such, the delivery partner should be able to demonstrate extensive experience of delivering business support activities for Creative Industrise businesses, a track-record of securing investment funds from local, regional and national investment networks, and experience of working with the investor community to build capacity and confidence to invest in Creative Industry businesses. The initial contract period budget is £318,750. We anticipate including 2 x 12 months optional extensions subject to funding. The 2 x 12 month extensions equate to £850,000 or £425,000 per optional extension.

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Opportunity Context

More Information Links

External Link: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027914-2025

Link Description: Tender notice on Find a Tender

Lots

Lot LOT-0000 Status: active

Lot LOT-0000 Value: GBP 1,168,750

Lot LOT-0000 Value (Gross): GBP 1,402,500

Lot LOT-0000 Contract Start: 2025-07-31T00:00:00Z

Lot LOT-0000 Contract End: 2026-04-30T23:59:59Z

Lot LOT-0000 Award Criterion (quality): Q1A Methodology

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Lot LOT-0000 Award Criterion (quality): Q3 Resource

Lot LOT-0000 Award Criterion (quality): Q4 Risk Identification and Mitigation

Lot LOT-0000 Award Criterion (quality): Q5 Added Value

Lot LOT-0000 Award Criterion (quality): Q6 Social Value

Documents

Document Description: Not published

Document Description: Tender notice on Find a Tender

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