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Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Foundational Economy: Innovation Development Offer

Business ServicesCPV 79000000 79410000
Value£87k
Awarded14 Dec 2022
Published1 Jun 2023
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

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Contract value in context
£87ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Business Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

The brief

GMCA is seeking to commission a Development Offer for people and organisations receiving funding for innovation through a project to develop Greater Manchester's Foundational Economy.\r The "foundational economy" supplies essential goods and services, ensuring that Greater Manchester can function effectively.\r It includes key workers, essential supply chains and infrastructure, culturally important goods and services (like hairdressing and beauty) and it underpins places, other parts of the economy, and well-being.\r It's the "everyday economy", or the "essential economy" - the businesses we all rely on for our daily needs\r As part of a focus on supporting this part of the Greater Manchester economy, GMCA is launching a Foundational Economy Innovation Fund to provide funding for projects that test new and emerging ideas.

You can find out more by following the link below:\r \r https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/what-we-do/economy/foundational-economy-innovation-fund/\r \r We anticipate that many of the people and organisations who take part in the project will not be familiar with innovation management or practices and might not have received funding for innovation before.\r \r For further information on this tender please see The Chest- https://www.the-chest.org.uk/

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

It includes key workers, essential supply chains

It includes key workers, essential supply chains and infrastructure, culturally important goods and services (like hairdressing and beauty) and it underpins places, other parts of the economy, and well-being.\r.

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As part of a focus on supporting

As part of a focus on supporting this part of the Greater Manchester economy, GMCA is launching a Foundational Economy Innovation Fund to provide funding for projects that test new and emerging ideas.

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Stage
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