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ClosedStage · preprocurement

Winchester City Council

SOFT MARKET TESTING - PROVISION OF A DIGITAL GROWTH FACTORY

IT ServicesCPV 72000000 73000000 79000000 80000000
ValueValue not published
Deadline1 Oct 2023
Published6 Sept 2023
RegionSouth East
Timeline
Published 6 Sept 2023ClosedCloses 1 Oct 2023
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The brief

The Economy team at Winchester City Council are applying for £40,000 of the UKSPF funding to deliver a Digital Growth Factory project which would meet the outputs and outcomes aligned with 'supporting local business'.

The aim of this soft marketing exercise is to: • inform our draft budget • ascertain the approximate number of attendees on each element of the courses • obtain quotes for the project, please see details below • ensure our project and the outcomes and outputs are feasible and deliverable within the budget and • provide suggestions for alternative delivery modules if the budget is not sufficient.

If successful in our application, we would seek to procure the delivery a digital growth factory which could include any/all of the following elements: • Commercialisation course •Acceleration support •Incubation and scale up course and/or •SME Digital Productivity Programme.

Please provide a financial breakdown for each of the items listed in the full document, as well as the numbers you envisage attending each element of the programme.

We would also welcome your feedback on feasibility and deliverability of the project and on any alternative solutions that would also achieve the outcomes and outputs, in the full document, required by the UKSPF.

Please submit your response by 1 October 2023 including any further information that you think we might find useful to: awoods@winchester.gov.uk.

For questions regarding this process you are welcome to contact Alison Woods, Business Engagement Manager, awoods@winchester.gov.uk.

The council will not reimburse any costs associated with the submission of a response to this questionnaire.

This questionnaire does not constitute an offer which is capable of acceptance and no contract will be entered into on the basis of the respondent's response to the soft market testing.

The council reserves the right to terminate this process at any stage.

Respondents intending to submit a response must obtain for themselves all information necessary for the preparation of their response.

Information supplied by the council or contained in the questionnaire is supplied only for general guidance in the preparation of a proposal.

Respondents must satisfy themselves as to the accuracy of any such information and no responsibility is accepted by the council for any loss or damage of whatever kind.

Please download the full brief which is downloadable as a PDF at the bottom of the page.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

The Economy team at Winchester City Council

The Economy team at Winchester City Council are applying for £40,000 of the UKSPF funding to deliver a Digital Growth Factory project which would meet the outputs and outcomes aligned with 'supporting local business'.

02

Ensure our project and the outcomes

ensure our project and the outcomes and outputs are feasible and deliverable within the budget and.

03

Provide suggestions for alternative delivery modules if

provide suggestions for alternative delivery modules if the budget is not sufficient.

04

This questionnaire does not constitute an offer

This questionnaire does not constitute an offer which is capable of acceptance and no contract will be entered into on the basis of the respondent's response to the soft market testing.

05

Respondents intending to submit a response must

Respondents intending to submit a response must obtain for themselves all information necessary for the preparation of their response.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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